Dolores Payás

Dolores Payás (sometimes credited as Dolors Payás, her Catalonian name) was born in Manresa, Barcelona, in 1955. Moved to Mexico and matriculated at the Mexican Autonomous National University in the University Centre for Cinematographic Studies department. Her early work started with short films in black and white and her earliest award was from the Mexican Ministry of Culture for her short film "ÓLa Imagen de la Mujer en Medios" in 1995. Between 1980 and 1985 she worked in the Mexican Educational Television Unit, writing more than 200 didactic documentaries. In 1986 she returned to Spain where she shared her time between writing scripts for films and television. Among these, the telefilm "Laia" for TV3 Catalunya and a biographical documentary on the life of the Catalonian architect Gaudí. From there a series of Catalonian projects, from which only "Me Llamo Sara" has reached certain acclaim outside of Catalonia.