CRISTINA GARCÍA RODERO – LA MIRADA OCULTA

Born in Tokyo to a Swedish father and an Argentinian mother, she lives in Madrid and works as a screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, journalist and researcher. She is a member of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and of CIMA. Her work has covered different social issues on a global level, such as the situation of the Aborigines in Australia, apartheid in South Africa, censorship in Kuala Lumpur and the phenomenon of criminal relapse in American women’s prisons. Her directorial feature debut, ‘Anclados’, premiered out of competition at Valladolid’s Time of History (Seminci) in 2010, and in 2019 she returned to directing with ‘Brain Matters’.