The former president of Inditex Pablo Isla creates the audiovisual production company Fonte Films

Together with the Goya winner Carla Pérez de Albéniz and the lawyer María Jesús Román

Aug. 26 () –

Pablo Isla, former president of Inditex and chosen in 2017 and 2018 as the best executive president in the world by the ‘Harvard Business Review’, has created the audiovisual production company Fonte Films together with the producer Carla Pérez de Albéniz, winner of the Goya, and the lawyer María Jesús Román, both with extensive experience in the audiovisual sector.

Pablo Isla will hold the position of producer and president at Fonte Films, which represents Isla’s first foray into the audiovisual sector, motivated by his passion for film and television fiction. His intention is to bring his proven business experience to the audiovisual world.

The production company starts with ambitious goals, such as developing projects of high technical quality with a global vocation, betting on new forms of audiovisual expression and transmitting support and confidence to the teams involved in an efficient management framework.

“Fonte Films is also an exciting initiative that joins the solid Spanish audiovisual industry with the purpose of being an incubator for new national and international talent, pampering emerging creativity and fostering agreements with other countries,” according to a statement .

Isla’s emergence in the sector responds to a business decision, but “also an emotional one”, which entails the challenge of implementing outstanding management in the universe of audiovisual production.

Pablo Isla is a Law graduate and State Attorney. He was general director of State Heritage, general secretary at Banco Popular Español and co-president of the Altadis Group. In 2005 he joined the Inditex Group as Vice President and CEO and in 2011 he assumed the Presidency of the company until March 2022. During this period, Inditex became a world leader in its sector and a benchmark in terms of digital transformation and sustainability. .

Currently, Pablo Isla is a member of the board of directors of Nestlé, global senior advisor of General Atlantic and president of the International Advisory Council of IE University.

It is also part of leading cultural institutions such as the Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum, the Royal Theater of Madrid and the La Caixa Foundation, among others. A cultural baggage that, together with his passion for cinema and television fiction, have borne fruit in his first foray into the audiovisual sector.

“We are very excited about the creation of Fonte Films. Personally, I intend to contribute my business experience to the audiovisual world and contribute, from my deep passion for cinema, to the development of the thriving Spanish audiovisual industry”, declared Isla.

On his side, Carla Pérez de Albéniz, who will hold the position of executive producer at Fonte Films, has been working in the audiovisual sector for 25 years. She has worked in several Spanish production companies as a production manager, and has carried out her work mainly in Spain, as well as in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil and Mexico.

In the last three years, Pérez de Albéniz has been in charge of the production department of the Movistar Plus+ Originals area. Among the awards he has received, stand out the Goya 2020 for Best Production Direction for the film ‘While the war lasts’, by Alejandro Amenábar, and the nomination for the same award in 2015 for ‘The Unknown’, by director Dani de la Tower.

María Jesús Román, who will be in charge of the Business-Legal functions at Fonte Films, has been a lawyer specialized in the audiovisual sector for more than 20 years and founding partner-director of the firm MRG Abogados, where she will continue with her functions, providing her services for national and international production companies of recognized prestige.

His experience covers the entire process of the work, from the initial negotiation to legal advice during its development, production and exploitation.

“We find it exciting to embark on this new project with Pablo, to have his background and recognized professional experience. Full of enthusiasm in this new challenge”, Pérez de Albéniz and Román have stated.

To lead the creative team, they have entrusted the screenwriter and showrunner Diego Sotelo, who joins as Content Director of Fonte Films and, likewise, will perform screenwriter and showrunner functions in the company. During his 15-year career in national fiction, Sotelo has signed the script for series recognized by critics and audiences such as ‘Los Protegidos’, ‘Under suspicion’, ‘Fariña’ and ‘On Death Row’, of which he was creator and executive producer. His latest work is ‘El Inmortal’, a fictionalized biopic about the leader of the Miami gang.