Bio

Gemma Blasco studied Directing and Screenwriting at the Bande à Part film school in Barcelona. She also trained in workshops such as Character Construction at EICTV (Cuba) and Filming in Barcelona with Abbas Kiarostami. She has directed feature films, short films, commercials and audiovisual projects for theatre.

Her short film Jauría (2018) won the SGAE New Authorship Award at the Sitges Film Festival. In 2019, the Gijón Film Festival premièred her project El Zoo (The Zoo), an experimental feature film that plays with theatrical registers.

She recently released La fúria (Fury), her first fiction feature, at the South by Southwest festival in the US and nationally at the Malaga Film Festival, where it won three awards in the Official Selection (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Editing), as well as a special mention from the jury at SXSW London. La fúria also opened the 2025 edition of the D'A Barcelona Film Festival.

She currently teaches acting and is preparing her next fiction projects.

Project

During her stay at Faberllull, she will write the script for the feature film Petroli (Oil).

After Marc dies in an oil refinery explosion, his partner Alicia and his best friend Oriol must learn to support each other, moving beyond individualism to find moments of light in the hostile world that surrounds them.

Petroli is an ode to disillusionment that flirts with genre, set in a world of souped-up cars, the undead surviving in the virtual realm, and a girl who runs away into the night, wondering what would happen if she disappeared.