Elena de Aras
Directing
Biography
Audiovisual Communication student (US). She started creating audiovisual content at a young age, experimenting with video editing and montage as a hobby. In 2019, she directed her first music video for Mauricio Buendía's single "Crawling Back To You", which led to further projects and a growing connection with short films. In 2023, her career gained momentum as she worked as an assistant director on "Milagrosa" for Ubrique de Cine. In March, she co-founded "Límite", a youth audiovisual collective, to participate in the III Edition of "Castilblanco y ¡Acción!". Her work as a director stands out in the DHRueda competition with "Y nosotros también", which won five awards: Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Integrated Slogan, Best Emerging Short Film, and Second Prize. She also participated in the "Rally 36h" of the *Mairena Creativa* competition with "Philm"—where she served as director, screenwriter, and editor—winning Best Screenplay. Her latest projects include "Durmiente" by María Gómez, where she worked as a Production Director. The film, part of the "Rodando Por Jaén" competition, features actors such as Lorca Prada ("El universo de Óliver"), Manué Rodríguez, and Marta Hoyos ("La chica invisible"). Another recent work, "Pepita Petanca", co-directed with Alejandro Mateos, won Best Cinematography at "Guadalcanal en Corto". Her most recent projects are "Hacia la Victoria" and "Laia".
Known For
Laia needs help, so she decides to gather four mysterious characters for a meeting that quickly spirals out of control.
Laia* EXPRESS
Four unknown characters are summoned to a meeting with a great purpose: to create a flawless script. However, the combination won't be as successful as Laia had imagined.
Laia
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Y nosotros también.
This documentary pulls us beyond stereotypes, reflecting on the concept of belonging and identity through the independent artist Celia’s Sensitive.
Sinceramente, yo
Matilde visits her grandmother, who will show her her most treasured possession and try to instill her passion in her, but Matilde isn't very interested. An event will make the little girl discover her own interest and push herself to the limit to make her grandmother proud.
Pepita Petanca
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Estertor
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Absence
1111 arrives on Earth with a mission: to analyze the productivity of the human species. In doing so, it discovers something that wasn't in its database. An inexplicable pattern that rewrites its code.
Mem0r1a
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Durmiente
Lukas loves cinema. So much so, that he falls in love with Philm, someone he meets on a film lovers' app. When they finally meet in person, problems arise: Philm is not what he imagined.
Philm
Selu and Migue have always hustled to get by, dreaming of leaving the neighborhood and hitting the big score. Selu’s cousin comes up with a foolproof plan.
Golfos
Lolo, a man of routine, lives and works in the La Macarena neighborhood. His life is calm until the news alerts him about a wave of robberies primarily affecting local businesses. From there, he will come up with ways to protect his business, searching for tools that will help him uncover the culprit.
Ratería
How much luggage do you think is necessary for a weekend getaway? Lucho has meticulously prepared everything he thinks he’ll need — without accounting for what will happen during the trip.
¿Qué tengo que hacer con mi vida?
Gabri is trained by Fili for a very demanding sports competition.
Towards Victory
Maca is leaving in a week to study abroad away from her city, Seville. What she once envisioned as the future is now an imminent reality. Maca's inertia suddenly stops after having to face a host of new fears that will falter the decision that was once firm.