Guillermo Fesser

Guillermo Fesser is the creator, along with his partner Juan Luis Cano, of an innovative radio program, Gomaespuma, which run in Spain 25 years; reaching 1 Million followers daily. Information was the goal; humor, the vehicle. He studied journalism at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and cinema at USC, Los Angeles, via a Fulbright scholarship. With his brother, film director Javier Fesser, he has written several scripts (Milagro de P.Tinto, La Gran Historia de Mortadelo y Filemon… and Candida, which Guillermo directed) and produced several short films, as The Invisible Monster, a multi awarded story co-directed for both brothers in a dump site in the Philippines to support a project of Action Against Hunger. On TV, Guillermo has edited News Specials for TVE, and produced a puppet series for Tele5 in collaboration with Kermit Love, the father of Sesame Street´s Big Bird. Fesser now lives in Rhinebeck, NY, the town that gave title to his bestseller about everyday life in rural America, One Hundred Miles from Manhattan. From there, he reports as a US correspondet for El Intermedio, La Sexta TV. In the last three years, Guillermo has being touring schools around the US to present his illustrated book, www.knowgalvez , with the intention of helping American children to unveil, appreciate, and enjoy, the deeply hidden Hispanic roots of their own culture.