Fernando Cortizo (1973, Santiago de Compostela) started working in the world of filmmaking in the 1990s with the short film El monstruo de la playa. Afterwards he worked on stop-motion animation short films. In those years he created works like the short films Bukowski, El ladrón de muñecas, Promesa and Leo. The Apostle is his feature debut, and the first Spanish digital extravaganza shot in the technique of 3D stop-motion animation.