Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Spain)
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, born in Barakaldo, Bizkaia, is a director and scriptwriter. She holds a degree in English Philology from the Deusto University and Audiovisual Communication from the UPV.
She graduated in Film Directing at the ECAM. Her final project was the short film "Clases Particulares" (2005), which won her numerous awards.
She has developed her work as a filmmaker and director in parallel with her work in advertising. In 2012 she founded her own production company: Igloo Films, and has directed campaigns for, among others, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Once, Mapfre and BBVA.
Her short films have won a multitude of awards, especially "They Say" (Dicen, 2011), which was selected for more than 160 festivals, receiving 50 awards.
In 2021 she wrote and directed her debut feature film "Cinco Lobitos", winner of numerous awards.
Arantxa Echevarría (Spain)
Arantxa Echevarría is a director and screenwriter. Her first feature film, “Carmen y Lola”, was nominated for eight Goya Awards in 2019, winning two; Best New Director and Best Supporting Actress for Carolina Yuste. The script was also a finalist for the Julio Alejandro Prize of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE). In addition, she was selected in 2018 for the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Spanish director to be selected for the Fortnight. In 2021 was released her feature film “La Familia Perfecta” (The Perfect Family), a comedy starring Belén Rueda and José Coronado and distributed by Universal and with the participation of Antena 3. The film achieved one of the ten highest box-office revenues of the year and number one on Netflix Spain and number two on Netflix worldwide. She has also directed on television the last chapter of the series “El Cid” and two chapters of “Días mejores”, (When You Least Expect It) both for Amazon Prime.
