Martina Juncadella

Martina JUNCADELLA (1992, Argentina) is a poet, actress and filmmaker from Buenos Aires. She began working as an actress in theatre as well as in cinema, taking part in films with a wide international reach such as Encarnación and Habi, la extranjera. In 2016, she participated in a film workshop led by Andrés di Tella at the Torcuato Di Tella University. In this intensive lab, she worked on two short films: Messages (2016), and Fiora (2017), co-directed with Martín Vilela. Messages premiered at the Biennale of Moving Image in Geneva in 2016. Fiora had its premiere at 2017 BAFICI where it won Best Short Film, and it screened at several international film festivals, including San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 2018 she directed the short film I Don’t See Myself Being Old. The film had its premiere at BAFICI and its international premiere at Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine, where it won the Prix Liziéres. In 2019, she was selected to develop her first feature film, Un personaje volador, in Ikusmira Berriak, a residence for filmmakers supported by the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Tabakalera Centre of Arts. The film also received the support of the Hubert Bals Fund for Script Development in 2019.