Spanish director and producer Pere Portabella (sometimes known as Pedro Portabella) earned a degree in chemistry before co-founding the Films 59 production company with Francisco Molero in 1959. This influential company was responsible for Marco Ferreri’s El Cochecito/The Wheelchair (1959), Carlos Saura’s feature-length debut Los Golfos/The Hoodlums and Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (1961)…