Juana Macías Explained

Birth Name:Juana Macías Alba
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain

Juana Macías Alba (born 1971) is a Spanish filmmaker.

Life and career

Juana Macías Alba was born in Madrid in 1971.[1] She earned a licentiate degree in audiovisual communication from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).[2] Her short film Siete cafés for semana won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film.[3] After making seven short films, she shot her full-length directorial debut Plans for Tomorrow. It earned her Best Direction and Best New Screenplay awards at the 2010 Málaga Film Festival as well as a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Director.[4]

Her sophomore feature, the comedy Embarazados was released in 2016.[5] It was followed by comedy Under the Same Roof (2019),[6] romantic comedy Sounds Like Love (2021),[7] screwball family comedy El favor (2023),[8] and drama The Girls at the Station (2024).[9] [10]

She is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain and the European Film Academy.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Juana Macías. El Cultural. El Español. 29 January 2016. Juan. Sardá.
  2. Book: Núñez Domínguez, Trinidad. Teresa. Vera Balanza. 190. Directoras contemporáneas de cine español. 2023. Seville. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla. 978-84-472-2449-4. 10.12795/9788447224494.
  3. Web site: Reflejo la vida en Madrid como es: fugaz, impersonal. El País. 28 February 2000. Lila. Pérez Gil.
  4. Web site: Unos noveles que saben mucho de premios Goya. rtve.es. 8 February 2011.
  5. Web site: 'Embarazados': Con capacidad de entretener. Diario de Mallorca. 3 February 2016. Prensa Ibérica. Antonio. Dopazo.
  6. Web site: Sony, Spain's FeelGood Media to produce 'Under The Same Roof'. ScreenDaily. 29 January 2018. Jeremy. Kay.
  7. Web site: ‘Fuimos canciones’: Tráiler de la comedia romántica con María Valverde y Álex González. Fotogramas. 22 June 2021. Juan. Silvestre.
  8. Web site: ‘Elite’ Producer Zeta’s ‘Favor’ to Filmax (Exclusive). Variety. 31 October 2023. John. Hopewell.
  9. Web site: 'Las chicas de la estación', primeras imágenes del rodaje de lo nuevo de Juana Macías. rtve.es. 17 July 2023.
  10. Web site: Beat Magazine. The 2024 HSBC Spanish Film Festival opens with a stunning homage to cinema. 20 May 2024.

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