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Enrique Nicanor (born 5 December 1944) is a film and TV producer/director, writer and designer best known for his works for public service broadcasting as Director of TVE-2, the Spanish Public TV and the creation of  Caponata and Perezgil, the Spanish muppets of Sesame Street (Barrio Sésamo). He began as a designer and film animation Director in Cuba (1959). Based in Paris (1965) and Spain (1967) he was board member and President of INPUT-TV, The International Public TV Conference and Film trainer at EAVE, The European Producers' workshop and the European Commission Learning Network. Independent producer since 1988.

Personal background

The son of a Galician family of modest landowners, Nicanor's parents emigrated after the Spanish Civil war to New York joining their family there. In 1950 the family  established their home in Havana where he studied Fine Arts at The National School of Fine Arts Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and Philosophy and History of Arts at the University of Havana. In 1965 the family left Cuba and he went to Paris to work as animation director and cameraman with producer Serge Danot. In 1967, Mr. Adolfo Suárez, Director of the recently created Spanish Public TV (RTVE), invited E. Nicanor to come back to Spain and join the new institution where he produced and directed films and documentaries till 1983 becoming that year Director of the channel. In 1988 he left the Spanish institution to work internationally as an independent producer/consultor promoting public broadcasting service within institutions such as INPUT-TV, collaborating as professional film trainer at EAVE the European Audiovisual workshop and producing for international TV channels.

Early works in Cuba and France

Filmography Cuba (ICAIC)

Filmography France, (ORTF) The French Public TV

Filmography Spain, RTVE, The Spanish Public TV

How it is How to do it, TV Series on crafts, arts and industry/ Cómo es Cómo se hace

The Rules of the Game, TV series on social anthropology

Barrio Sésamo, the Spanish co-production of Sesame Street

Noah Ark / El arca de Noé, series on wildlife and nature

1983, Head of the Children Programmes Unit at RTVE

1983-1987 Channel Director for TVE-2, the Cultural channel of RTVE

President of INPUT-TV, The International Public TV Conference

European Institutions, EAVE and the MEDIA Programme

Independent films and documentaries

Interviews within films and programmes

Awards and nominations