Carla Simón

Carla Simón

Filmmaker Carla SIMÓN (1986, Spain) graduated from Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona and studied at the London Film School. She grew up in a small Catalan village, as part of an extensive family with a bottomless pit of stories, relationships, feelings and entanglements. Out of these stories grew her autobiographical debut, Summer 1993. It premiered at the 2017 Berlinale, where it received the Best First Film Award, alongside more than 30 other prizes from all over the world. It was selected to represent Spain for the Academy Awards and it won three Goyas. Carla also received the Women in Motion emerging talent prize in Cannes in 2018. For the development of a new feature called Alcarràs, Carla took part in the Cannes Residency, Nipkow Program and the Torino Film Lab, where the project won the CNC Award. It also participated at Berlinale Co-Production Market, where it got the Eurimages Development Award. While teaching film to youngsters, Carla made the short film Correspondence (2020), co-directed with Dominga Sotomayor, which had its world premiere at Visions du Réel. It was screened at the New York Film Festival, the San Sebastián International Film Festival and received the Best Short Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Filmography

(selection) Estiu 1993/Summer 1993 (2017), Correspondencia/Correspondence (2020, short doc)

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