Julio Fernández, the pioneering founder of Barcelona studio Filmax and co-architect of itsFantastic Factory which galvanised Spain’s auteur genre production, died Nov. 17. in Miami. He was 78. Born in rural Galicia, in A Fonsagrada in the province of Lugo, Fernández was typical of a region which emigrated for larger opportunities in Spain’s fast building cities. Few, however, had Fernández’s ambitions and eye for the main chance. If genre and animation are two of the current international