She began her professional career as manager of the Cine Estudio Griffith, taking charge of its direction and programming. At the beginning of the 80’s, she and Fernando Trueba founded the film production company Opera Films, which released films such as A contratiempo by Oscar Ladoire, De tripas corazón by Julio Sánchez Valdés and Mientras el cuerpo aguante and Sal gorda, by Fernando Trueba himself. In 1984 she founded the production company Fernando Trueba P.C. and took charge of the executive production of multiple works by different directors, such as Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, Gerardo Vera, Chus Gutiérrez, Félix Viscarret, Ricardo Franco and the brothers Fernando and David Trueba, among others. Her long trajectory as a producer, often in collaboration with her partner, the director Fernando Trueba, has been very successful. She won her first Goya award for Best Film in 1992 for Belle Epoque, which was also awarded with the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. In 1996 her film La Buena Vida, this time directed by David Trueba, won prizes at various festivals. She won her second Goya for Best Film in 1999 for The Girl of Your Dreams, and, in 2011, she received the Goya award and an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Film for the animated feature Chico and Rita. She won another Goya in 2014 for David Trueba’s film Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, awarded in the Best Film category. She has also produced TV shows for Televisión Española. La mujer de tu vida (1), which comprises seven one-hour comedy chapters, was awarded in 1989 at the Valladolid Festival as best TV show of the year. Every chapter in this series, as well as the chapters that formed its second season, La mujer de tu vida (2), were made by different directors. In 1990 she produced Los Magos de la Tierra, a series of four one-hour documentaries on primitive art directed by Philip Haas. During her long career she also took up the challenge of producing the play Wit, by Margaret Edson, for which she collected several awards. The play was directed by Lluis Pasqual and the lead role was played by Rosa María Sardá. Cristina Huete has publicly stated: “Cinema has been my life and the life of my family, we do it out of love, we dream films. I want to keep on producing”.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón
