Elena LÓPEZ RIERA

Elena Lopez Riera was born in 1982 in Spain. She is based in Geneva. Her first short film Pueblo premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in 2015. In 2016 her film Las vísceras is selected at Locarno and won the silver Mikeldi prize at Zinebi film festival. Her latest short film Los que desean has been nominated for the European Film Awards and won the Pardino d'Oro at Locarno Film Festival in 2018. Her films have been shown at numerous international film festivals. She is also co-founder of the audiovisual artists' collective lacasinegra. Elena worked as a programmer for several film festivals including Entrevues Belfort, Sevilla European Film Festival and Visions du réel, where she has been a member of the selection committee since 2017. She has also participated in the first international film seminar at the Tabakalera Art Centre, the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Ikusmira Berriak residency program at Tabakalera and the Arché Lab at the Doc Lisboa Festival. Variety magazine pointed her as one of the 10 spanish raising stars in 2015. She is currently developing her first feature film El agua.