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Diego Moldes
Born	27 de enero de 1977 Pontevedra, (Galicia) (Spain)
Occupation	Film historian, writer, university professor, editor-in-chief, and marketing and communication executive.
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid, University of Vigo,
Genre	Essay, film history, film criticism, narrative
Website
diegomoldes.com

Diego Moldes González (Pontevedra, 1977) is a Spanish writer, essayist, novelist, critic and film historian.

Biography

Diego Moldes holds a degree in PR, a master in publishing (from Oxford Brookes University / Publish Editrain) and a PhD in information science (audio-visual communications) from the Universidad Complutense.

In 2000, he became a TVG presenter in Galicia: three years later, he moved toward marketing, publicity, and digital content in the cultural field, chiefly focusing on book, movies music and comics. His connection to Judaism led him to collaborate with the Sefard-Israel Centre and Raices: Revista judia de cultura (Roots: a Jewish Cultural Magazine). From 2015 to 2018, he served as direct-general of Hispanic-Jewish Foundation. In 2015, he became president of the Fania Association, a group which combats antisemitism and supports cultural endeavours. Om 2019, he became director of institutional relations of the Nebrija University and the Antonio de Nebrija Foundation.

To date, he has published eleven books of non-fiction, narrative and poetry. Among these are the historic novel Ensoñación (Daydreaming) and cultural essays such as La huella de Vértigo (Vertigo´s Footprint) (2004); Roman Polanski. La fantasía del atormentado (Roman Polanski: The tormented fantasy) (2005); El cine europeo. Las grandes películas (European Cinema: The Great Movies) (2018); and Alejandro Jodorowsky (2012), a monography prefaced by Jodorowsky himself. Moldes is also the author of Venuspasión (2014), with and introduction by Luis Alberto de Cuenca, and Ni un día sin poesía (Not One Day Without Poetry) (2018).

In November 2019 he published his eleventh book, a lengthy essay: Cuando Einstein encontró a Kafka. Contribuciones de los judíos al mundo moderno (When Einstein Met Kafka. Jewish Contributions to the Modern World) (2019). The book is the result of reading, for twenty years, more than three hundred books and more than two thousand articles and documents, as well as the viewing of some two hundred documentary and fiction films. The prestigious Catalan critic Toni Montesinos praised the book, calling it "great merit" and "formidable work". It also received positive reviews in other Spanish media such as Televisión Española, El País, La vanguardia, ABC or El mundo. As indicated in a post-scriptum "the book occupied spaces in fifty media, newspapers, radio stations, television –interviewed twice on Spanish Television–, literary blogs, cultural websites, social networks, etc. El País, The world, The avant-garde, ABC, The reason, Faro de Vigo, The impartial, History and life, Pergola, Librújula, Zenda, etc.

Published Work

Narrative

• (Daydreaming) Ensoñación (Ediciones Pigmalión, Madrid, 2012), novela. ISBN 84-15244-26-4
• Venuspasión (Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2014), essay, narrative, stories and poetry. ISBN 978 84-15606-23-9

Poetry

• (Not One Day Without Poetry) Ni un día sin poesía (Ed. Mueve tu lengua, Madrid, 2018), poemario. Prólogo de Alejandro Jodorowsky. ISBN 978 84-17284-22-0

Essay

• (When Einstein found Kafka. Jewish contributions to the modern world) Cuando Einstein encontró a Kafka. Contribuciones de los judíos al mundo moderno (Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2019). Prólogo de Esther Bendahan.

Film Books

Diego Moldes with Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Roman Polanski with Diego Moldes.

• Vertigo's footprint (Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2004). Film Essay on the Influence of Vertigo, by Alfred Hitchcock ISBN 84-89564-39-8.
• Roman Polanski. The fantasy of the tormented(Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2005). Essay. ISBN 84-89564-44-2.
• European cinema. Great movies (Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2008). Essay on European Sound Cinema (1930-2007) ISBN 84-89564-51-5.
• The manuscript found in Zaragoza. The novel of Jan Potocki adapted to the cinema by Wojciech Jerzy Has (Ediciones Calamar, Madrid, 2009). ISBN 84-96235-32-7.
• Alejandro Jodorowsky (Col. Signo e Imagen / Cineastas, Ediciones Cátedra, Madrid, 2012).Monographic essay, foreword byA. Jodorowsky, 496 pages. ISBN 978-84-376-3041-0

Books about Basketball

• My first Real Madrid basketball book. From a to Z. (Editorial Everest, Madrid, 2009). ISBN 978-84-441-6323-9.
• Real Madrid Basketball. E-book 500 questions and answers (Editorial Everest, Madrid, 2009).ISBN 978-84-441-6335-2

Collective Books

• All Releases of 2003, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2003. ISBN 978-84-95121-2-57
• All Releases of 2004, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2004. ISBN 978-84-95121-2-71
• All Releases of 2005, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2005. ISBN 978-84-95121-35-6
• Views for the new millennium. Fragments for a future history of Spanish cinema, Alcalá de Henares Film Festiva / Fundación Colegio del Rey, 2006. ISBN 84-87153-8-77.
• All Releases of 2006, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2006. ISBN 978-84-95121-4-17
• The Alfred Hitchcock Universe, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2006; ISBN 978-84-934701-4-2.
• All Releases of 2007, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2007. ISBN 978-84-95121-4-48
• Woody Allen's universe, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2008; ISBN 84-936000-7-5.
• All Releases of 2008, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2008. ISBN 978-84-95121-5-09
• Foreigners in the ACB, JC, Madrid, enero de 2009. ISBN 978-84-89564-58-9.
• Clint Eastwood's universe, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2009. ISBN 84-93714-8-40.
• History of cinema in movies, 1970-1979, Coord. José Luis Sánchez Noriega, Bilbao, Ed. Mensajero, 2012, ISBN 978-84-271-3294-8.
• CINEMA XXI. Directors and directions, Hilario J. Rodríguez and Carlos Tejeda (coords.), Colección Signo e Imagen, Cátedra, 2013, ISBN 84-376-3149-3
• The heaven's Door. Memories 1901-1952 by Vittorio de Sica, foreword by Diego Moldes, Confluencias Editorial, Almería, febrero de 2015. ISBN 978-84-943298-8-3
• The universe of Orson Welles, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2015. ISBN 978-84-15606-2-77.
• The Billy Wilder universe, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2015. ISBN 978-84-15606-3-07.
• An empire of its own. How the Jews invented Hollywood, by Neal Gabler, Introduction, appendix, additional bibliography, notes and edition by Diego Moldes, prologue by Román Gubern, Editorial Confluencias, Almería, 2015. ISBN 978-84-94441-3-87
• Fritz Lang Universvm, edition and foreword by José Luis Garci, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2016. ISBN 978-84-15606-41-3
• The universe of the Marx Brothers, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2016. ISBN 978-84-15606-40-6
• cstasy and me. Hedy Lamarr. Prologue, filmography and bibliography by Diego Moldes, epilogue by Guillermo Balmori, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid,2017. ISBN 978-84-15606-4-44.
• PascALEjandro, ed. Donatien Grau, Actes Sud/Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, edition in French (June 2017) and English (August 2017).. ISBN 978-2-330-07540-8
• Casa Blanca. 75 years of legend, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, November 2017.ISBN 978-84-15606-63-5
• The universe of John Ford, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2017. ISBN 978-84-15606-61-1
• Emotion pictures. The filmwork of José Luis Garci, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2018. ISBN 978-84-15606-62-8
• The universe of Ingmar Bergman, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2018. ISBN 978-84-15606-72-7
• The universe of Nicholas Ray, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2018. ISBN 978-84-15606-70-3
• EThe universe of Rita Hayworth, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2018. ISBN 978-84-15606-74-1
• The universe of Howard Hawks, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2018. ISBN 978-84-15606-75-8
• Imposible no comerse (en el volcán de los amores canallas), antología, Coord. Antonino Nieto, Editorial Lastura, Madrid, febrero 2019. ISBN 978-84-949652-5-8
• The Wizard of Oz. The 80th anniversary book,, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2019. ISBN 978-84-15606-81-9
• 19 to XXI, foreword and edition by José Luis Garci, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, j2019. ISBN 978-84-15606-86-4
• The universe of Gary Cooper, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2019. ISBN 978-84-15606-92-5
• The universe of Ernst Lubitsch, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2019. ISBN 978-84-15606-91-8
• The universe of Federico Fellini, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2020. ISBN 978-84-15606-99-4
• The universe of Gene Tierney, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2020. ISBN 978-84-18181-11-7

Collaborations (in radio, television, universities, associations and foundations)

• He was a member of the radio program Panoramic Screen, of Radio Círculo (100.4 FM, Madrid), directed by David Felipe Arranz. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2004 and 2005.
• He was a member of the television program Tiempo de Tertulia, produced by IBECOM, made by EFE-TV, broadcast in multicast on 225 local, digital and cable TV and 123 radio stations, Madrid, March 2005, and January 2007.
• In 2011 he was a collaborator of the Filmoteca Española (Spanish Cinemathèque).
• Since 2013 he has been a member of the Radiocine station, specialized in cinema.
• In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the The Madrid Film School.
• Since 2015 he is President of the Fania Association.
• Since 2016 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Communication and Arts at the Antonio de Nebrija University.
• From 2015 to 2018 he was General Director of the The Hispanic Jewish Foundation.
• Since 2019 he has been the Director of Institutional Relations of the Nebrija University Foundation.

References

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