Mateo Gil Rodr�guez is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, second unit director, assistant director, and occasional cinematographer, editor and producer. He co-wrote most of Alejandro Amen�bar's films with him, and also served as second unit or assistant director in two of this films. Amen�bar's The Sea Inside, which Gil co-wrote, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He was nominated for seven Goya Awards including Best New Director and Best Director, and won four: Best Original Screenplay for The Sea Inside and Agora, Best Adapted Screenplay for The Method and Best Short Film - Fiction for Dime que yo. 

September 23rd, 1972 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Age 52)