# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juanjo-gimenez-pena
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:32:45.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juanjo-gimenez-pena"
name: "Juanjo Giménez Peña"
slug: "juanjo-gimenez-pena"
description: "Juanjo Giménez Peña is a Spanish director and filmmaker. He is best known for his films Indirect Free Kick (1997), Rodilla (2009), \"Nitbus\" (2007), Maximum Penalty (2005) and Timecode that earned him Short Film Palme d'Or at 69th annual Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination at the 89th Academy Awards. He is also the founder of the production companies Nadir Films and Salto de Eje."
tagline: "Spanish film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Equip_del_film_Tres%2C_XIV_Premis_Gaud%C3%AD_(2022)_(Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.32
  momentum:             2.644628099173555
  historical:           7.672174666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rikkinadir"
    handle:    "rikkinadir"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319781/"
    handle:    "nm0319781"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.juanjogimenez.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez_Pe%C3%B1a"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "چوانچو جيمينيز پينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez_Pe%C3%B1a"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez_Pe%C3%B1a"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Gim%C3%A9nez"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28503899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1459948"
    title: "Juanjo Giménez Peña"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump