Luchadoras

Paola Calvo is an Venezuelan director and DOP born in Caracas in 1981. She graduated in Media Studies from Universidad Complutense in Madrid in 2005. In 2006, she enrolled in the Cinematography Department of DFFB film school in Berlin, and her debut film, ‘Violently Happy’ (2017), was her graduation work. ‘Luchadoras’ is her first feature film as a director. Patrick Jasim is a German director and DOP. His feature debut in this capacity, ‘Bube Stur’, was screened at Berlinale Film Festival 2015. His last film, the documentary ‘Helmut Berger, my Mother and Me’, was premiered at the prestigious Max Ophüls Price and was screened in German cinemas in 2019. ‘Luchadoras’ is his first feature as a director.