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I am a film director, screenwriter, and editor. I trained as a stage director at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona, where my early work focused on performance, live arts, and collaboration with theatre companies. Over time, I felt the need to take that practice beyond the stage and into everyday life.

In 2013, I co-founded Artefactum, a platform for artistic creation, research, and cultural mediation. As a creative manager, I worked closely with communities and cultural institutions, developing projects in public spaces, schools, and neighbourhoods. These hands-on experiences, together with my background in cultural studies and contemporary art, continue to shape the way I approach cinema.

Filmmaking became a natural extension of this trajectory — a way to bring together aesthetic experimentation and social engagement. My first feature-length documentary, La Comuna (Peru, 2022), emerged from this process. In 2023, I received a Fulbright fellowship to study creative documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy.

Since then, I have directed and produced independent films in Spain, Peru, the United States, and the United Kingdom. My work moves between documentary and fiction, exploring hybrid forms and spaces where the personal intersects with the political. I am particularly interested in questions of memory, identity, migration, and mental health.

I think of cinema as a practice rooted in the margins — a way of staying attentive to what is unstable, unresolved, or overlooked. I am drawn to the idea of foreignness not just as a subject, but as an attitude: a way of looking again, without taking anything for granted.


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MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MNCARS (2019), graduate of the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA (2018), and a BA in Stage Direction and Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (2016) and Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy (2024).

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