Salvador Simó is a film director and scriptwriter. He started studying animation at the American Animation Institute of Los Angeles in 1991 while also working at the Bill Melendez Prod Studio on a special Charlie Brown feature. When he returned to Spain he worked in the field of traditional animation for several companies, including Disney in Paris, where he lived for two years. Subsequently, he returned to Barcelona where he continued working for Disney and set up a studio that worked exclusively for that same company (Disney), during three years, while studying Film Directing at the CECC. Thereafter, Salvador moved to London to work in MPC’s department of previsualization & layout, in projects like Narnia, Prince Caspian, The Werewolf, The Prince of Persia and the James Bond’s movie Skyfall, where his knowledge on cinematography & animation opened many doors for him. In 2008 he began directing an animation series in Asia, eventually shooting over 500 minutes of film. Then, in 2014 MPC again offered him a job. This time as head of film sequences in the animation feature movie The Jungle Book, produced by Disney, as well as in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men tell no Tales. In 2016 he moved back to Spain to direct the Buñuel feature film project: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles which premiered in October 2018 at the Animation Film Festival of Los Angeles, where he was awarded the Jury Prize.