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Antonio Maenza Blasco (b. 1948) El lobby contra el cordero (1968) Orfeo filmado en el campo de batalla (1969) Not very prolific writer and film director born in Cella, where he was born in 1948. As a film producer he stood out for his avant-garde and minority themes. He studied at the University of Zaragoza, where he shot his first film. Later he went to Valencia, coming into contact with avant-garde environments. He has been considered a cursed writer, both because of his subject matter and because of his psychological problems that led to his suicide. He died in Zaragoza in 1979. The writer Vicente Molina-Foix made him the protagonist of his work The Letter Opener (2006).