Joan Blanquer i Penedès

Joan Blanquer i Panadès (Castellar del Vallès, Spain 1912-Sabadell, Spain 2002) was an administrative officer by trade and a filmmaker, scriptwriter, and Catalan teacher. He published several award-winning scripts for amateur films in the magazine Otro cine, published in Barcelona. He worked for the advancement of Catalan in multiple activities at cultural institutions: staged readings of contemporary plays, lectures, research into the lives of local historical characters, Catalan courses, and so on.