Elio Quiroga Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer from the Canary Islands.

[2][3] His debut feature film as a director, surreal melodrama Fotos (1996), is considered to have attained cult status.

[4][5] It was followed by The Dark Hour (2006), The Haunting (2009), the documentary The Mystery of the King of Kinema (2015), and La estrategia del pequinés (2019).

[3][2] He has also directed short films, including Sirena negra, El último minutero (which earned a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film), and Whence comes the rain.

[1] As a fiction writer, he has penned novels such as Los que sueñan, Niños del sol, Astral and Tiempo sucio.