BIO
Pilar Monsell’s first film “Distancias” (Distances, 28 min) was premiered in 2008 at the 49th Festival dei Popoli in Florence, where it won the Audience Award. It then toured to numerous international festivals, such as MedFilm Festival in Rome, Festival de Cine Migrante in Buenos Aires, Muestra de Cine Experimental in Maldonado (Uruguay), the Ourense Film Festival, the African Film Festival in Tarifa, Documenta Madrid…

In 2009, Pilar joined the Laboratory of Documentary Creation run by the Play Doc – International Documentary Festival in Tui, where she is directing a portrait that has being filmed between 2009-2013. In 2012, she completed the short film “Pan, Trabajo y Libertad” (Bread, Work and Freedom, 26 min) premièred at Doc Lisboa 2012 International Film Festival and she participates also in the french collective cinema project 100jours, directing the short film “+ 46”(6 min). In 2013, she got Manuel Cintra Ferreira Fellow from the Doc’s Kingdom International Documentary Cinema Seminar, directing the short film “Vulcão” (11 min). She is currently presenting her first feature documentary film “África 815”.

She has a BA in Audiovisual Communication (UMA), a Diploma in Artistic Photography (San Telmo, Málaga) and a Masters in Creative Documentary (UPF, Barcelona). She works as a filmmaker and collaborates usually in the working process of several films as “No cow on the ice” by Eloy Domínguez Serén (Super 8 footage), “Elvira” de Adriana F. Castellanos (editor), “Bikimel D.O.” VVAA (editor), “Nacional VI” directed by Pela del Álamo (editor), “Avant” directed by Juan Álvarez Neme (production), “Cubas” directed by Tamara Cubas (development) and “TIR Corridoio 5” directed by Alberto Fasulo (production). She works as a mentor for documentary cinema in Madrid School of Cinema.