In 1986 he created the firm Escorpio Films as a branch of Pedro Maso Producciones and subsequently produced his first full feature length movie, entitled El Tesoro with direction by Antonio Mercero and based on the novel of Miguel Delibes.
The proposed construction of the dam in the mid-1950s was the impetus for John Graves' book, Goodbye to a River, in which Graves mentions El Tesoro.