Ignacio Aguilar

Ignacio Aguilar is a Spanish born director of photography. He started his career in 2006 and has since shot commercials for many clients, such as Nivea, Adidas, BBVA, Unicef, Bankia, Real Madrid, Samsung, BMW or Banco Santander, among many others.

"The Passenger" (Raúl Cerezo & Fernando González Gómez, 2021) marked his debut as a cinematographer for a feature film, shortly followed by "Viejos" (Fernando González Gómez & Raúl Cerezo, 2022), which is scheduled for theatrical release in early 2023, after a very successful Festival run.

Ignacio's narrative work also includes about 30 short films, with "8" (Raúl Cerezo, 2011), "Mr. Dentonn" (Iván Villamel, 2014) and "El Semblante" (Raúl Cerezo & Carlos Moriana, 2022) being highlights for which he has won more than fifteen international cinematography awards. His work has also appeared on both "American Cinematographer" and "Camera & Light" magazines.

He has experience with both film and digital cameras, having shot in most of what's available from Arri, Sony, Canon and Red. He has a lot of experience with cinema lenses, having shot a lot in the anamorphic format.

Since 2017, Ignacio also teaches film and cinematography at Spain's most prestigious film schools, such as ESCAC in Barcelona and ECAM and EFTI in Madrid, among others, and runs a camera rental house in Madrid (Spain), Harmonica Rental, which he funded in 2012.