Barbara Sarasola-Day

Barbara SARASOLA-DAY was born in 1976 in Argentina, and grew up between Salta and Buenos Aires. She studied communication sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, screenwriting in London and creative documentary at the Barcelona Film Observatory. In 2008, she received a scholarship from Fundación Carolina -Casa América. In 2015 she graduated from the EAVE Producer’s Workshop.

Deshora (Belated) (2013), which premiered in Berlinale Panorama, was her debut feature as a screenwriter and director. It was selected for more than 35 international film festivals. Sangre blanca (White Blood) (2018), her second feature film, premiered at Rome Film Festival (2018) and was selected for the Cannes Film Festival 2019 to be part of the ACID Trip, ACID section.

She is co-writer of the films El rocío by Emiliano Grieco and La asfixia by Ana Isabel Bustamante. With Pucará Cine she produced films directed by Benjamin Naishtat, Jhonny Hendrix, Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra, among others. Since 2020, she has been an adviser for script and film project development at the Gender Perspective Workshop of DAC (Argentine Film Directors). 

Filmography

Deshora (2013), Sangre Blanca (2018)