Carla SIMON

Carla Simón (1986) was raised in a small Catalan village. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and spent an exchange year at the University of California. In 2011 she was awarded with the prestigious scholarship of Obra Social ‘la Caixa’ and moved to the UK to study a MA in Filmmaking at the London Film School. There, she directed her short films Born Positive, Lipstick and Las Pequeñas cosas, all selected to several international film festivals. Her last short film, Lacuna is a very personal project that the director made with her mother’s letters. Estiu 1993 is her autobiographical debut, produced by Inicia Films and Avalon. It premiered at the Berlinale 2017 where it won the Best First Film Award and the Generation Kplus Grand Prix Jury Award. The film has collected more than 30 prizes all over the world; it also represented Spain for the Oscars, was nominated to the European Film Awards and won 3 Goyas. While writing her second feature, also selected for the Torino Script Lab, Carla teaches film to young people through Cinema en Curs, ESCAC and University Pompeu Fabra. She is currently developing her second feature film Alcarras.