Pedro Rivero

Director, Writer

Pedro Rivero is a producer, director and screenwriter. He has written for several TV animated series and for the feature film Goomer, recipient of the Goya Award for Best Spanish Animated Feature Film in 1999. He served as producer, director and screenwriter of La Crisis Carnívora (2007), the first Spanish feature film in Flash animation for theaters, and Birdboy (2010), a Goya Award-winner for Best Spanish Animated Short Film, with more than 40 awards and 200 selections in film festivals. That short film served as the prequel for Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, the new animated feature that reunites him with co-director Alberto Vázquez. Rivero was President of the Basque Screenwriters Guild from 2002-2008, and is also an author of theatrical plays and comic books.