Raquel Fernández Nuñez

Born in Valladolid, Spain, Raquel began her journey as a cinematographer at ECAM in Madrid. In 2000, it was clear to her she needed to leave her homeland, both to grow as a person and a DP. She believed that only through actual life experience, could she give scripted characters their due. Her first destination was NYC; Raquel learned the vocabulary of the set, in English and lived atop her bicycle, studying the City's tonal changes. With 9/11, her U.S. visa expired, so she moved next to still-very-Victorian London. Her next destination was the UAE, where she DP'd one of the first films ever made in Ras al-Khaimah. Returning to NY for her next project, took her traveling and filming through eleven countries in the Americas. Then it was back to London; and from there to snow-covered Venice, learning to logistically shoot in it's canals; then to a Kuwaiti production at the Hollywood-esque studio in Ouarzazate, Morocco; then 3 years in China, first Shanghai, then Beijing; In Dubai, with Chinese production A Fallible Girl, she worked with Won Kar Wai's colorist, Ms. Hong Liu Jie. The film screened in competition at both Tribeca and Rotterdam Film Festivals. Los Angeles was next. She spent two years in L.A., before flying back over the Atlantic to shoot the award-winning Traces of Sandalwood, in Mumbai and Barcelona. The film garnered Spain's 2015 Gaudi Award for Best Film and Montreal International Film Festival's Audience Award. Then Raquel was off to the Philippines in March 2015, to shoot a documentary and then to Switzerland and Hong Kong for Berlinale-nominated director Kit Hung's "Stoma". August of 2015 took her to Madrid and the northern coast of Spain, for feature "Las Furias" with an all-star award-winning Spanish cast and crew. Who knows what corner of the World her next project will land her in.