A THIEF’S DAUGHTER

Born and raised in Ripollet, Barcelona. Discovering her passion for communication and storytelling, she pursued film direction at ESCAC, graduating in 2008. She later traveled to San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, to complete a master´s degree in fiction writing at the EICTV school. In 2015, she made her directorial debut with the short film Sara a la fuga, which premiered at the Málaga Film Festival and won the Silver Biznaga for Best Director and Best Short Film. In 2017, her second short film titled La Inútil premiered at the Seminci and was nominated for Best Short Film at the Premis Gaudí of the Catalan Cinema Academy. In 2018, she was selected for the Talent Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to develop the script for her first feature film, La hija de un ladrón (A Thief’s Daughter). This debut premiered in the Official Selection of the San Sebastián Film Festival and won the Silver Shell for Best Actress for Greta Fernández. It also received three Premis Gaudí awards: Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Non-Catalan Language Film, as well as the Goya Award for Best New Director. The film has been showcased at festivals such as Palm Springs, BFI London, Thessaloniki Film Festival, and Les Arcs, among others. Los tortuga is her second feature film and it was selected by the SGAE Script Laboratory, Mediterranean Film Lab, and Berlinale Talent Project Market, where was finalist for the VFF Talent Highlight Award.