Since directing for the stage in my school in Seville (including, amongst others, a painstakingly reproduced version of West Side Story, where I had to take the role of Bernardo due to the shortage of male pupils and discovered the joy of acting in drag), I remained faithful to my first love through drama school and college in the UK, finishing with an MA in theatre directing. I then came to Ireland with two female peers to take the Irish theatre scene by storm at the end of the 90’s – except we didn’t because we were young women and outsiders in more ways than one.

With theatre, I was always left wanting by the inability to capture a moment that worked – it would be different the following night. I went back to study film production with the purpose of finding and retaining those moments, as it could only be done in cinema. My first opportunities came from documentary, where I honed the art of writing with the edit. I made and won awards for TV docs, shorts, a feature – but I missed live-action, and I have been focusing on it as a director since 2017. Funded and awarded shorts have followed and I’m now developing a few features from the point of view of the outsider/insider I continue to be in my adoptive country.