Antoine Pereniguez was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1954. After working as a projectionist in the Utopia-Avignon Cinema from 1982 to 1983, he founded the Diagonal cinema chain in 1983, which today has ten art house cinemas in Montpellier. In 1994, he helped found Altamira Productions. He coproduced Spanish director Vincente Perez Herrero’s feature, « La vida privada » and has also acted in films by Manuel Poirier, Jean-Henri Roger, and Marc Recha.