Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro

Founder, CEO and Head of Acquisitions

Atalante

Graduate in Communication Sciences at the USC (Santiago de Compostela) with a stay at the Université Paris 8. Master’s in Creative Documentary at the UAB and Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at the UPF (Barcelona).

After being a film editor and filmmaker, his career in the field of film distribution began in 2015, with the creation and management of the distribution department in the NUMAX cooperative, a project of which he was a founding member and president since 2014 and to which he belonged until 2021, working among other functions as the director of exhibition and the planner and financial manager of the company.

In 2016 he was selected to participate in the Industry Academy of the Locarno Festival and the Step-In working groups. Visiting professor at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola – Tabakalera (San Sebastián), Next Wave – DFFB (Berlin), Europa Cinemas Lab (Seville, Lisbon), CICAE (Sarajevo, Venice), project advisor (Novos Cinemas, L’Alternativa, MRG /WRK, Mecas, Abycine), jury at international festivals (Locarno, Seville, Pravo Ljudski Sarajevo, OUFF, PortoPostDoc, IndieLisboa, Punto de Vista) and has been a member of project evaluation committees for AGADIC and ICAA.

Since 2019 he is also the managing director and programmer of DUPLEX Cinema, a film exhibition project through which he has promoted the recovery of a two screens cinema in Ferrol. Founder of Proxima (association of independent and auteur film distributors in original version) and founder of Promio (national association of exhibitors). His work in the cinematographic field has been recognized with the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in Europe 2020 by Europa Cinemas.