Jorge Coira is a director, scriptwriter and editor from Galicia (Spain).
He has been recognized for his work as a director and as an editor, both for television and film, with several awards including the Goya Award for the editing of Dani de la Torres’s Retribution.
His professional background includes video, tv and film. He directed some TV series such as Terra de Miranda, As Leis de Celavella, R.I.S., Father Casares, The Commissioner, Balls and I Know Who You Are. He has also directed documentaries as Chunda Chunda, Vida nas Mareas, Delivery Days, Tower of Breoghàn and From the Land to your Table (premiered in the MoMA, New York).
As a director he has worked in two short films awarded at several festivals, Mofa e befa en gran liquidación and O matachín; the TV movie Entre Bateas (2002) and his first feature film produced in 2004, The Year of the Slacker.
His next film, 18 meals, was selected in over 30 international festivals and released at theatres in countries from Europe, America and Asia. It has also received awards for Best Director at the Taormina International Film Festival, the Special Jury Award and Audience Award at the OUFF, the Jury Award and Audience Award at the Tenerife International Film Festival, and the Special Jury Award in the Annecy Biennale.
In 2019, he premiered the feature film Eroski / Paraíso, co-directed with Xesús Ron and in collaboration with the theatre group Chévere (National Theatre Award 2014), in 2022, Code name: Emperor, which was selected for the opening gala of Festival de Málaga (now available on Netflix), and in 2023, the comedy I’ve gone viral, produced by Warner Bros. Spain.
In the last few years he directed the two seasons of the TV show Hierro, produced by MOVISTAR+, Arte France, Portocabo and Atlantique; and most recently, Rapa, again for Movistar and Portocabo.