About us

Atalante is an independent film distributor created in February 2021 by Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro, co-founding partner and head of exhibition, distribution, and financial planning at the Numax cooperative from February 2014 to February 2021.

In 2022, Diana Santamaria Varas joined the Atalante team as director of distribution and marketing. She was previously a distributor at Capricci Cine and a freelance collaborator with Numax distribution since 2019, starting with the premiere of FIRE WILL COME (Oliver Laxe).

Since its inception, Atalante has released more than sixty films in theaters, including the winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and double Golden Globe nominee ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia); the winner of the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Directors’ Fortnight, and Oscar shortlisted THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE (Hasan Hadi); and the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner and Colombia’s Oscar entry UN POETA (Simón Mesa Soto).

Many of the titles released have been selected or awarded at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastián, Locarno, or the Goya Awards. Among them are CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia Zhangke), BLUE SUN PALACE (Constance Tsang), EUREKA (Lisandro Alonso), ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Paul B. Preciado), SAMSARA (Lois Patiño), LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS (Urška Djukić), QUIÉN LO IMPIDE and TENÉIS QUE VENIR A VERLA (Jonás Trueba), THE CURRENTS (Milagros Mumenthaler), RETURN TO REIMS (FRAGMENTS) (Jean-Gabriel Périot), KONTINENTAL 25 (Radu Jude), THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos), films by Arthur Harari, Pedro Costa, Jean-Luc Godard, Angela Schanelec, Rita Azevedo Gomes, Mathieu Amalric, Erige Sehiri, and the entire filmography—10 titles—of Hong Sangsoo, from INTRODUCTION (2021) to THE DAY SHE RETURNS (2026).

In addition, as part of its commitment to promoting heritage cinema, it has released in Spain, among others, the restorations of the complete feature filmography of Maurice Pialat (10 titles), L’AMOUR FOU, CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING, and LE PONT DU NORD by Jacques Rivette, DAISIES by Vera Chytilová, THE MUNEKATA SISTERS by Yasujiro Ozu, SUZHOU RIVER by Lou Ye, FRANCISCA by Manoel de Oliveira, and five feature films by Paulo Rocha, including THE GREEN YEARS and CHANGE OF LIFE.

We like to work with films that bring something new to cinema, that awaken feelings or ideas during the screening that were previously unknown to us and that continue to stir us after we have seen them. Films that remain in our memory over the years; cinema that leaves its mark on us and stays with you.

Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro
CEO and Head of Acquisitions

Graduate in Communication Sciences at the USC (Santiago de Compostela) with a stay at the Université Paris 8. Master's in Creative Documentary at the UAB and Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at the UPF (Barcelona).
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Editor and filmmaker, his career in the field of film distribution began in 2015, with the creation and management of the distribution department in the NUMAX cooperative, a project of which he was a founding member and president since 2014 and to which he belonged until 2021, working among other functions as the direction of exhibition and of the planner and financial manager of the company. In 2016 he is selected to participate in the Industry Academy of the Locarno Festival and the Step-In working groups. Visiting professor at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola - Tabakalera (San Sebastián), Next Wave - DFFB (Berlin), Europa Cinemas Lab (Seville, Lisbon), CICAE (Sarajevo, Venice), project advisor (Novos Cinemas, L'Alternativa, MRG /WRK, Mecas, Abycine), jury at international festivals (Locarno, Seville, Pravo Ljudski Sarajevo, OUFF, PortoPostDoc, IndieLisboa, Punto de Vista) and has been a member of project evaluation committees for AGADIC and ICAA. Since 2019 he is also the managing director and programmer of DUPLEX Cinema, a film exhibition project through which he has promoted the recovery of a two screening room in Ferrol. Vice President of Próxima (association of independent and auteur film distributors in original version) and president of Promio (network of independent cinemas), national association of exhibitors. His work in the cinematographic field has been recognized with the "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for entrepreneur of the year in Europe 2020 by Europa Cinemas.

Diana Santamaria Varas
Director of Distribution, Marketing & Communication

Graduate in Audiovisual Communication at the UPF (Barcelona) and master's degree in Cinematographic Studies at the Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and in Valorization of Heritage and Programming at the Université Paris 8.
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She has been working in film distribution since 2013 for Capricci Films in Paris. Responsible for distribution of Capricci Cine Spain (2014-2021) and responsible for the coordination and financial management of Sofilm magazine (2014-2021). She has collaborated in the programming of Festival D'A (Barcelona), Sofilm Summer Camp (Nantes), international sales (Capricci) and worked at Filmoteca de Catalunya, Ltc Patrimoine and as a project advisor in international forums (Ventana Sur, Mecas, Abycine , Malaga, Nantes). She has distributed in Spain contemporary auteur films and heritage titles by directors such as Albert Serra, Aleksei German, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sergei Paradjanov, Abel Ferrara, Hong Sangsoo and Kenji Mizoguchi among others.

Icíar Puig Lozano
Admin

Licenciada en Ciencias Empresariales por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid con la especialidad Auditoría.
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Ha trabajado como asesora administrativa, fiscal, contable y financiera en distintas compañías. Además de formadora para personal no financiero y emprendedores es experta en masaje facial japonés kobido.

Fidel Ojea González
Programming, comunication and materials

Graduate in Audiovisual Communication at the Universidade de Vigo and master's degree in Critical and Cultural Theory at the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid).

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