Juan Antonio Moreno Amador is a film director, screenwriter and producer. He has directed and written Welcome to Spain, Boxing for Freedom, a documentary screened in more than fifty countries and selected for the European Film Academy Awards, and the documentary Words of Caramel, nominated for the Goya Awards. He has also produced Walls and Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe, both winners of two Goya Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
His films have received more than one hundred awards and have been selected at more than five hundred festivals including Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, the Montreal Festival, CPH DOX in Copenhagen, Sheffield Doc Fest in the United Kingdom, Camerimage and DocumentaMadrid. He has received the Reina Sofia Award for Social Communication and the Excellence Award granted by the Carlos III University of Madrid, where he teaches documentaries. In 2010 he created the production company Making DOC and he is a member of the European Film Academy and the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
