Concarán, Argentina, 1955. She has developed her acting career in film, theatre and television. For the silver screen, she has participated in important titles to have come out of recent Latin American cinema, such as La ciénaga and La niña santa (Lucrecia Martel), Diarios de motocicleta (Walter Salles), Luna de avellaneda (Juan José Campanella), Betibú (Miguel Cohan), Neruda (Pablo Larraín), El amor menos pensado (Juan Vera), El Ángel (Luis Ortega), Familia sumergida (María Alché), Araña (Andrés Wood), Elena sabe (Anahí Berneri) and Sueño Florianópolis (Ana Katz). For her work in this last film, she received the Best Actress award at the Karlovy Vary Festival.

The Mar del Plata Film Festival awarded her the Astor Award in 2018 for her outstanding film career. In 2019, she was invited to be a jury member at the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2021, she received the Retrospectiva Award at the Malaga Festival and chaired the jury at the last Rio de Janeiro Festival.

When it comes to theatre, she has played in works by Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Tracey Letts, David Lindsay-Abaire, Paul Zindel, Woody Allen and Neil Simon, among others. She played her roles under the directions of Claudio Tolcachir, Alejandro Tantanian, Romina Paula, Rubén Szuchmacher, Carlos Rivas and Luis Agustoni. She has also directed theatre and written his own show, Ay, amor divino!

Entre sus trabajos para la televisión destacan grandes éxitos de la televisión argentina como Gasoleros (1998-99), Socias (2008), El hombre de tu vida (2011) y Guapas (2014-15). En los últimos años, estrenó las series de Netflix El Reino, Maradona: sueño bendito y la multipremiada Iosi, el espía arrepentido de Amazon Prime Video.

His work for television includes major Argentinean hits such as Gasoleros (1998-99), Socias (2008), El hombre de tu vida (2011) and Guapas (2014-15). Recently, he premiered the Netflix series El Reino, Maradona: sueño bendito and the multi-award winning Iosi, el espía arrepentido for Amazon Prime Video.

She is a Chilean actress, opera singer, writer and producer. Her lead role in A Fantastic Woman (2017) brought her international recognition, becoming the first Chilean film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She also made history by becoming the first transgender woman to present the Academy Awards. In 2018, Time included her on its list of the top 100 most influential people in the world.

She is a member of the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has taken part in Spanish, English and Italian language productions, highlighting Tales of the City (USA), The Power (United Kingdom), La Jauría (Chile), Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After (Spain) and La rebelión (Mexico). Her film career includes her roles in Technoboys (Mexico), Futura (Italy), The Guest and Run Over (Chile). She has also worked as a producer, taking part in the Peace, Peace, Now, Now documentary.
She is the author of Rebeldía, resistencia, amor (Planeta Publishing House) and she is working on her next book.

She has been awarded for Best Actress at festivals such as the Platino Awards 2018 (Mexico), the Palm Springs International Film Festival (USA) and the Havana Film Festival (Cuba), among others.
 

Estrella Araiza is currently CEO of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG in its Spanish acronyms), where she is achieving her goal of keeping her professional focus on Mexican and Latin American cinema.

Throughout her career, she has been President of the GudaLAjara Film Festival (GLAFF) in Los Angeles, and she has gained experience as Director of Industry and Market of the FICG, sales agent, academic and film distributor in Mexico. She started her career in international distribution in 2005 and then, in 2012, she set up her own company, Vendo Cine.
She has been a jury member at foreign festivals, in addition to collaborating and taking part in important international film markets.

She has implemented several programmes within the film industry such as “Industria incluyente”, focused on making it possible for people with disabilities to watch big screen films; and “El principio del film”, bringing writers, screenwriters and publishing houses closer to the film industry.
 

Her career has continued unabated, proving that she is capable of shining in both comedic roles and characters with great dramatic weight. She will soon star in Legado and Cortafuego on Netflix, two projects that promise to further consolidate his versatility in film and television.

She studied Acting at the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Málaga. Her role as Milagros in Holy Camp!, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, marked a milestone in her career. She went on to star in films such as Spanish Affair 2, We Need to Talk and Party Town. In Kiki, Love to Love, directed by Paco León, she was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress.

She won the Feroz Award for Best Supporting Actress in Paquita Salas, and the film adaptation of Holy Camp! earned her another Goya nomination. Her performance in The Endless Trench won her the Goya Award for Best Female Performance, consolidating her position as one of the most important actresses in Spanish cinema.

She has worked in Cesc Gay's The People Upstairs, in Money Heist as Manila, and starred in Un novio para mi mujer (2021). In 2023, she surprised the audience in her role as Bárbara Rey in Untameable, which won her the Iris Award. She will soon release Legado and Cortafuego on Netflix.
 

Irene Escolar (Madrid) has participated in 22 films and 28 plays, working with some of the top directors in the Spanish and European scene.

Her first lead role in the cinema, Un otoño sin Berlín (Lara Izagirre, Zinemira, 2015) earned her a special mention from the Irizar Award at the San Sebastián Festival and the Goya for Best New Actress. After participating in Competencia Oficial (Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn, Perlak, 2021), starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, she appeared in the cast of Tenéis que venir a verla (Jonás Trueba, Made in Spain, 2021) and Las chicas están bien (Itsaso Arana, Made in Spain, 2022), which participated in the Official Selection at the Karlovy Vary Festival. Her other films include El séptimo día (Carlos Saura, Made in Spain, 2003), Los girasoles ciegos (José Luis Cuerda, 2007) and Bajo la piel de lobo (Samu Fuentes, Zinemira, 2017).

Worthy of note among her works are the project Escenario 0, of which, with Bárbara Lennie, she is the actress, creator and executive producer; and the series Dime quién soy, in which she plays the lead role, premiered in 2020 at the San Sebastián Festival (Movistar Gala).

Among her latest works are the play Finlandia, directed by the prestigious theatre director Pascal Rambert; the series Largas Sombras, directed by Clara Roquet for Disney +, the film Ariel, directed by Lois Patiño; and the series Las abogadas, where she plays Manuela Carmen.

In 2019, she won the Community of Madrid Theatre Prize. She has also received the Ojo Crítico Award bestowed by Radio Nacional and is a three-times-nominee at the Valle Inclán Awards.
 

Director, screenwriter and editor from Barcelona. He studied Audiovisual Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University and at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles, where he stayed for plenty of years and started his career as an editor.

After many short films, he made his feature film debut in 2014 with Long Distance, which earned him many awards. Some of them include five Biznagas at the Malaga Film Festival and the Goya Award for Best New Director.

In 2017, he released his second feature film, Anchor and Hope, which won him many awards at international festivals and two Gaudí Awards for Best Film in non-Catalan language and Best Actor. He went on to release The Days to Come in 2019, which premiered at the official section of the Rotterdam Film Festival and won the Golden Biznaga for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress at the Malaga Film Festival. This film also received the Gaudí Awards for Best Film, Best Actress and Best Film Editing. In 2024, he released They Will Be Dust, which won the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Silver Spike at the Valladolid Film Festival.

Apart from his cinematographic career, he also works as a director for platforms such as Movistar+ (En el corredor de la Muerte), A3Player (La Ruta) or HBO (Escenario 0, En casa), and has directed feature films for television too.
 

Born in Zaragoza, Pilar graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza in 2003. In 2013, she was one of the filmmakers selected by Hungarian director Béla Tarr to participate in his collaborative project Film Factory in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Her first feature film, Schoolgirls (2020), premiered in the Generation Kplus section of the Berlin Film Festival, and it received the Golden Biznaga for Best Film at the Malaga Film Festival. It was hugely acclaimed by the audience and critics when it was released for cinemas, and it was distributed in France, Japan and Portugal, among other countries. Since then, the film collected multiple awards, including 4 Goya Awards (Best Film, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography).

In 2022, she competed in the Official Section of the San Sebastián Film Festival with her second film, Motherhood, which won Carla Quílez the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance. This film successfully premiered among the audience and critics, and it was nominated at the Goya Awards for Best Director, Best Film and Best Supporting Actress.

Her third feature film, Glimmers (2024), premiered in the Official Section of the San Sebastián Film Festival, where Patricia López Arnáiz won the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance. In addition, this film has received 4 Goya nominations in this year’s edition, and it has been named as one of the best 2024 films by the Spanish press. She is also part of the BISTRIK7 film collective, and she has participated in Berlinale Talents (2016 and 2021) and in Sarajevo Talents (2016).

Born in Madrid in 1979, he has been the lead singer of the band Vetusta Morla since its beginning in 1998. They have been nominated for Manuel Martín Cuenca's films La hija (Best Music at the Feroz Awards 2022) and El amor de Andrea (Best Original Song at the Goya Awards 2024).

He has worked closely with filmmakers who have directed music videos for the group, such as Juan Cavestany, Eugenio Mira, Nacho Vigalondo, Paula Ortiz and Fernando Franco.

With a degree in Visual Arts, his passion for filmmaking led him to programme film seasons and poster exhibitions when he was a teenager, until recent years, when he has been a guest programmer at the Film Academy and the Condeduque Centre for Contemporary Culture.
He worked as a guide at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum on a tour relating the works of art in the collection to filmmakers and film movements. His first solo composition consisted in setting to music, exclusively with voice, the session Nitrato #3. Riñas y danzas (1895-1952) for the Spanish Film Archive in 2021.

He has been a jury member at Filmadrid (2017), the Gijón International Film Festival (2019), the San Sebastián Film Festival (2020), the Valladolid Film Festival (2023) and, since 2022, he has been working as a scout for the distribution company Elastica Films at the Cannes Film Festival.