Mercedes Gamero is a Spanish film producer and the head of Beta Fiction Spain since 2022. From 2009 to 2022, she served as general manager of Antena 3 Films/Atresmedia Cine.

Biography

She is from

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, Catalonia and the daughter of actor

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. She earned a

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in German philology and a master's degree in audivisual production from the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

(UCM). Early in her career, she worked for

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, AXN Canal España, and

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. She joined Grupo Antena 3 (later Atresmedia) in 2004, becoming the CEO of its film production arm Antena 3 Films (later Atresmedia Cine) in 2009. While working for the aforementioned mass media group, she has been responsible for over 150 films, including '' Palm Trees in the Snow'', '' The Invisible Guardian'', ''

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'', and '' The Invisible Guest''. In 2022, Gamero left Atresmedia Cine after 18 years employed by

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, to head the newly created Spanish subsidiary of Beta Fiction.

References

Spanish women film producers Complutense University of Madrid alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Film-producer-stub