Carla Simón grew up in a small town in the Catalan Garrotxa. She majored in Audiovisual Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, completing a year at the University of California. In 2011, she obtained one of the prestigious scholarships given out by “la Caixa” and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue an MA in Filmmaking at the London Film School, where she directed her short films Born Positive (2012), Lipstick (2013) and The Small Things (2014), all selected in several international festivals. Her short Llacunes (2016) is a very personal project that the director based on her mother’s letters.
Estiu 1993 (2017), her first feature, was produced by Inicia Films and Avalon. It premiered at the Berlinale where it won the Best Opera Prima award and the Grand Prize of the International Jury of the Generation Kplus section. She also won the Biznaga de Oro at the Malaga Festival, Best Director at the BAFICI, the Mention of the Jury at the Istanbul Festival and the London Festival and the Best Film Award in Odessa and Mumbai, among others. The film represented Spain at the Oscars, was nominated for the European Film Awards, won the Best Script prize at the Fénix awards, was nominated for 8 Goya Awards, where she won for Best New Director. Carla teaches film to young people through the Cinema in Progress project, at ESCAC and at UPF.
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
