Bio

Paula Fuentes hails from a small village in the Serra do Courel (Galicia). She studied cinema in Barcelona at ESCAC (Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia) and subsequently completed a master’s degree in Contemporary Sinema Studies at Pompeu Fabra University, along with a postgraduate course in Film Editing at the same university. Her documentary Corre o Vento (2023) is her first short film as a director.

Fuentes is particularly interested in representing spaces and identities on the brink of disappearance, focusing on the resilience of memory and cinema as a medium for preserving it.

Project

At Faberllull, she is also working on the script for Luna de agosto, alongside Carlota González. The film is set in the villages of the Sierra Minera (Murcia), which still suffer the environmental, economic and social consequences of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the Mediterranean. The Bay of Portmán is the epicentre of this disaster, an inert place, a broken ecosystem that has endured the onslaught of mining over-exploitation for half a century. Against this backdrop, a group of young friends bids farewell to summer, exploring the possibilities, hopes and fears of an uncertain future. They are also the protagonists of a strange film being shot by outsiders about the village’s situation.