Albert Espinosa i Puig (Catalan pronunciation: [əlˈβɛɾt əspiˈnozə i ˈputʃ]; born 5 November 1973), educated as an industrial engineer, is a Spanish screenwriter, playwright, writer, actor and director of cinema.
[3] Espinosa began writing in his college years, at first by writing the plays the group performed, many of them Shakespearean-inspired (including texts and transcriptions of the actors' improvisations), others focusing on autobiographical themes (such as his play 'Los Pelones', premiered at the Riereta Teatre in Barcelona in July 1995, which was the seed of what years later would become his first movie script 'Planta 4ª') as well as other works set in a university context, such as 'Un novato en la ETSEIB' After completing his studies, he formed with classmates and theater group ETSEIB the theater company "The Pelones" (referring endearing to the eponymous piece cited above, this group of pediatric cancer patients, all bald by the effects of chemotherapy, which was part Espinosa himself in his years of hospital stay), which even today is still active.
He began working as a writer for television programs and contests, mostly for the Catalan producers, Gestmusic, an activity which he combined with his role as a playwright and as an actor in the theater company "The Pelones".
However, the true consecration of Espinosa's talent as a writer came with the film 4th Floor (2003), directed by Antonio Mercero and starring Juan José Ballesta.
In this work, marked autobiographical, the author recounts with tenderness and humor, in a tone away from the drama and tragedy, the everyday experience in a hospital of a group of children suffering from cancer.
The 23 February debuts in the alternative theater comedy Barcelona Tantarantana Idaho and Utah (lullabies for babies unwell), written, directed and starring Espinosa himself, and set in a near future where he invents a pill to stop sleep indefinitely.
The other film released that year was going to be that Nobody is Perfect, directed by and starring Joaquin Oristrell Santi Millán, Fernando Tejero and José Luis García Pérez, who at the time was surrounded by some controversy for alleged plagiarism of a previous script Strawberry Caesar.
[citation needed] His latter film, which won a Special Mention at the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize, portrays the physical disability issues as a daily, which should be considered normal vision banishing exclusive.
In May 2007, started shooting the film, released in October the following year, Espinosa would debut as a film director: Do not ask me to kiss you, because I'll kiss, a comedy starring Eloy Azorin and based on the work homonymous theater (released in January 2004) and in another piece titled the club will palles (straws club) (premiered at the National Theatre of Catalonia in March 2004), both composed by Espinosa for the company itself "The Pelones".
'[5] In 2010 he embarked on a new project with Pau Freixas, director of Héroes (2009), the television series Polseres vermelles (known in English as The Red Band Society), created by Espinosa himself.
Polseres vermelles tells the everyday story of a group of teenagers who meet at a hospital because of their illnesses, and talks, always with humor and tenderness, the value of friendship, the will to live and the desire to excel.
In addition, the 1st season was dubbed into Castilian and issuance began 9 July 2012 in Antena 3 with a large audience, surpassing even the harvested data in Catalonia with the original pass.