Frida Torresblanco

Frida Torresblanco is a film, television, and documentary producer based in New York City. She has produced The Dancer Upstairs, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Disobedience and Pan's Labyrinth. In 2002, Torresblanco launched a New York-based film production company, Esperanto Filmoj, in partnership with Alfonso Cuarón. She produced Cronicas, The Possibility of Hope and Rudo y Cursi.

Early life and career

She co-produced Pan's Labyrinth.^[1]

In 2020, ViacomCBS International Studios announced it had ordered, from Jill Offman (66 Media) and Torresblanco, a drama series on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, based on Mary Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), ISBN 9780691002859.^[2]

Also in 2020, ViacomCBS Networks Intl., started development on a TV series about the life of Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga. Torresblanco serving as executive producer and James Kent as director.^[3]

In 2022, Paramount+ announced a new series, produced by Torresblanco and John Leguizamo, about Emma Coronel Aispuro and her path to becoming the wife of former drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.^[4]

In 2024, Torresblanco co-founded Hangtime International Pictures.^[5] The company would later join the production team for season 2 of The Night Manager.^[6]

Filmography

• 1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
• 2001 Gaudi Afternoon
• 2001 Girl from Rio
• 2001 Rain
• 2001 Off Key
• 2002 The Dancer Upstairs
• 2004 Duck Season
• 2004 Crónicas
• 2004 The Assassination of Richard Nixon
• 2005 Black Sun
• 2006 Pan's Labyrinth
• 2007 The Possibility of Hope
• 2007 The Shock Doctrine
• 2007 Year of the Nail
• 2008 Rudo y Cursi
• 2010 Locked In
• 2013 Magic Magic
• 2017 Disobedience
• 2019 Boléro
• 2020 The Roads Not Taken
• 2020 Karnawal
• 2020 Fatima
• 2020 Greencard
• 2021 Man in the Attic