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Spanish producer, director, and screenwriter Pedro Costa graduated from the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía in 1968, but never made a mainstream feature film until El Caso Almería/The Almería Affair in 1983. Shortly after graduation, the Barcelona native, an outspoken opponent of Franco's regime, made subversive militant film shorts under the name Film-Tracs. Costa then spent the '70s through 1982 working as a crime journalist. In 1984, Costa supervised, produced, and directed an episode of the two-part series La Huella del Crimen/The Traces of the Crime. He would direct the second in 1990. In 1991, Costa produced Vicente Aranda's Amantes/Lovers and Intruso/Intruder (1993). In 1997, Costa directed El Crimen del Oriente and produced Ricardo Franco's fact-based drama La Buena Estrella.