Sensitive, unrelenting travesti cinema that seeks to twist the audiovisual apparatus to explore street violence from its own perspective, ready to stretch the boundaries between fiction and social order.
She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She works as both a
director and cinematographer in film (Toda una vida, 2022; Facunda, 2020; You are not a real woman, 2026) and
television (Otra ronda, 2023; Una tarda amb, 2025; Dones en lluita, 2024–2025–2026). She has also directed several
dance films, including Ezlekua (2020) and Noir (2020), both of which have been recognized at renowned international
festivals. Over the years, she has collaborated closely with choreographers, dancers, and leading figures in the
flamenco world, including Juan Carlos Lérida, Marco Flores, Ana Morales, José Maldonado, and José Manuel Álvarez,
among others.
Toda una vida (A Lifetime) (Distinto Films, DossolesMedia and Proyecta Films), her first feature-length documentary,
premiered at the Cartagena International Film Festival and the D’A Film Festival. Following its theatrical release, it won
the Docs València Award, the Best Film Award at the Som Cinema Catalan Audiovisual Festival, and the Best First
Documentary Feature Award at the Golden Kapok Awards (China).
Her documentary short film Facunda (Allegra Films) premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam (IDFA), was nominated for the 14th Gaudí Awards of the Catalan Film Academy, and received a Special
Mention from the Pepón Coromina Award in 2022.
You are not a real woman (CCCB and Dones Visuals), co-written and co-directed with Kha Villanueva, premiered at the
2026 D’A Film Festival and has begun its distribution journey with Agencia Freak.
Dancefloor (Distinto Films), co-written with Luz Ruciello and selected for the 2nd Screenwriting Residency of the
Catalan Film Academy, will mark her fiction feature debut.
Kha Villanueva, a Mediterranean transvesti femininity. Actress, director, and performance researcher. Group
psychologist mentioned in adult clinical practice (UAB and UB). Founder of the p0rn0t0pia collective, where she directs
performance pieces such as g0g0te0 (2023), a transvestite power exercise, and foXXY boXXY (2025), an investigation
at the intersection of film and performance on sexual violence. She is currently researching methodologies for the
redistribution of public capital through artistic and social mediation at Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, the Barcelona CREA
24/25 grant, and Nau Ivanow, among other contexts. She has extensive experience as an actress and in supporting
groups at risk of exclusion, and her work is grounded in antifascism, antiracism, and transfeminism. She performs,
writes and directs together with Marta Romero the film You are not a real woman (2026) produced by the CCCB with
the collaboration of Dones Visuals, premiered at the D’A Film Festival in 2026.
