Adrián Guerra

At the age of 18, he started his degree on audio-visual communication at the University of Madrid. After two years he decided to give up his studies and start his professional career. From the age of twenty till he was 26, he was the director of “Calle 13” the first edition of the Fantasy and horror week at Cines Imperial, Gran Via, Madrid. In 2005, Mr. Guerra founded Versus Entertainment, a film production and distribution company.

He had already produced 8 films at the age of thirty. The first one was “Buried”(enterrado) which earned 10 nominations in different categories, being the best film one of them, for that year´s “Premios Goya” Award. His film won on three of the ten categories it participated. Rodrigo Cortes’ debut film cost around 3 million dollars and raised over 19 million.

After “Buried”, Adrian Guerra produced “Guest”(2010), “Emergo”(2011), “Luces Rojas”(2012) and “Grand Piano”(2013). At present, he is waiting to release the movie “The Gunman”(Pierre Morel), a co-production with Sean Penn and Joel Silver (“Matrix”1999, producer).Adrian Guerra has worked with top Hollywood stars such as Robert de Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Elijah Wood, Cillian Murphy, Ryan Reynolds, John Cusack and Elizabeth Olsen.

In 2013, Mr. Guerra founded in Barcelona, a risk and financial advisory consulting firm “Oceano Media”. This organization provides funds to film shoots in Spain and abroad. Oceano Media has participated in films like “Escobar: Paraiso perdido” and “REC 4. Apocalipsis”, filmed in The Canaries thank to tax breaks incentives.

Adrian Guerra is one of the film producers that has availed tax breaks the most as a way to finance his films, encouraging other fellows producers to follow his steps. A proof of this are “Grand Piano” in 2013 and other two films shoot in Gran Canaria in 2014 “Como sobrevivir a una despedida” (to be released in 2015) and “Palmeras en la nieve”(showing in December, 2015). Nowadays, he is working in other two films, “El hombre que mató Don Quijote”(a production that seems to be “cursed” for over 20 years) produced by Monty Python and Terry Gilliam and “Maldito Viernes” directed by Paco Plaza.