Violeta Barca-Fontana

Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences of Spain. She has been working in the film industry since 1997. She studied filmmaking and production in Barcelona, Madrid and New York. She worked on Spanish productions with great masters as Carlos Saura, José Luis García Sanchez and Andrés Vicente Gómez. In 2003 she produced a very successful feature film La Fiesta distributed by Walt Disney Company (Spain). Since 2016, she has been the feature film selector of the Madrid Film Festival and in 2018 she directed the closing ceremony of the same film festival. Since then she has directed documentaries and several short films that have been selected in several film festivals including: Color Thief (Best short film at Festival cine Madrid) and Quixote in a Fragmented World (Finalist at Goya awards 2016). As a screenwriter, four features: Atrévete, Entre Raíles, Myths and La Flor de Ulises. And in October 2018 she opened the Madrid Film Festival in his inaugural session with her feature film Pieces of New York. 2019 finished her last short film, Fronteras.