
Paula Ortiz
Directing
Biography
Paula Ortiz Álvarez is a Spanish director, screenwriter and producer who works for Get in the Pictures Productions and Amapola Films, teaches Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona, and collaborates with the University of San Jorge in Zaragoza.
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Stories to Stay Awake

Based on the famous play "Bodas de sangre" (Blood Wedding) by Federico García Lorca, La novia tells the story of a passionate love triangle. A bride leaves her groom, no longer able to withstand the surging desires of her lover, Leonordo.
The Bride

Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
The Red Virgin

In post WW2 Venice Italy, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, haunted by the war, faces news of his illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend a weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to visit his old haunts in Venice. As Cantwell's plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a remarkable young woman begins to rekindle hope. Based on the harrowing novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Across the River and into the Trees

Through different genres (such as romantic comedy, drama or even fantasy), this show takes a look through the viewpoint of five different filmmakers at the unusual context that the coronavirus quarantine provides.
At Home - Spain

Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word.
Chrysalis

Teresa, a Carmelite nun, reformer, and mystic of the Roman Catholic Church, has been ostracized for her beliefs. She will meet with the Inquisitor. All kinds of decisions regarding her are possible.
Teresa
A child wants one of those planes that can fly to the top of the Himalayas. A puppet wishes to go away with a dancer, together, far away. The train is about to leave ... Only the puppet master knows that, sometimes, you must learn to live without things that you love.
Tristan Boj's Hollow

What would you do if the State of Alarm is declared and your partner leaves you that same day? Marta and Nuria are friends but are unexpectedly forced to live together in the midst of a pandemic. A romantic comedy where friendship overcomes fiction.
En casa: Así de fácil

On the tenth year anniversary of their mother's death, two estranged sisters head to a mountain to scatter her ashes, but as they struggle to reconcile, their past begins merging into their present, causing them both to become increasingly paranoid.
Borderline (Black Woods)
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a young soldier on the frontlines reflects on the pain of loss and the senselessness of war. In a trench near the so-called 'no man’s land', he unexpectedly encounters his brother, fighting for the opposing side.