
Maite Ruiz de Austri
Directing
Biography
For more than 25 years, until 2018, Maite Ruiz de Austri was the only woman in Spain to direct animated feature films. She has produced a long list of award-winning films, television programs, and series. In addition, she is a screenwriter and director of television series, documentaries of both animation and fiction. She was one of the founding members of the Association of Women Filmmakers [es] (CIMA) that was created to "give a boost to the role of women in film, especially in jobs of responsibility. She is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Cinematographic Arts of Spain.
Known For

After a necromancer takes over the magical world of Idhun, two adolescent earthlings help fight an assassin sent to kill all Idhunese refugees on Earth.
The Idhun Chronicles

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Our Animal Neighbors!

A series of 13 episodes about the history of comics. It narrates, in a documentary and chronological manner, the birth, trajectory, and evolution of comics.
Comics, the Ninth Art

To get his hands on a valuable pod of whales, a 17th-century European daredevil in Newfoundland foolishly attempts to release the powers of the mythical North Wind, who was trapped in a pot thanks to a shared effort by Basque sailors and Mi'kmaq Indians. Now, the descendant of those Indian, Watuna, and the descendants of those Basque sailors, Ane and Peiot, must defeat the evil Athanasius before he achieve his purpose.
The Legend of the North Wind

Animation film about Human Rights of Children to a younger audience in a dynamic and entertaining. A story about the values, need and equal justice in the first years of life, when it's necessary to have someone to fight for them.
The Extraordinary Journey of Lucius Dumb

The stork Cathy and the mouse Nicholas, was forced to close the theater where they work for living. With the courage and imagination that characterize them, our friends are used as intrepid reporters of a new television channel run by Big Mouse. Soon realize they need a program that launched to stardom. It will not be easy.
Animal Channel

Based on the musical by Javier Munoz and Diego Izola. In a quiet fishing village, all adults have to put to sea. When parents go, a whole series of terrors and monsters attack children. To add to the confusion appears the terrible unicorn whose breeding is gone and blames plunging fishermen in seabed.
The Legend of the Unicorn

Sequel of "The Legend of the North Wind."
The Return of the North Wind

At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their films, their points of view, their dreams, their efforts to get somewhere, their contribution to the cinema and to society.
A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers

Katy the stork, Nico the mouse and Lorri the parrot, intrepid reporters for the Animal Channel, receive bad news while enjoying a well-deserved vacation: it seems that two reporters from the network working deep in the jungle are in trouble.