F. Javier Gutiérrez is an award-winning Spanish filmmaker whose work has garnered more than 100 prizes worldwide. His first feature, Before the Fall (2008), was scheduled for a Hollywood remake by Wes Craven, and soon Javier was Hollywood-bound. His 2017 instalment of The Ring trilogy – Rings – won the praise of Koji Suzuki, writer of The Ring novels, and was a worldwide hit. Gutiérrez: ‘As a good friend told me once, “one for them, one for me – for my soul.” The Wait belongs to the latter category.’