Carla Simón was born in Barcelona in 1986. Director and screenwriter, she graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona in 2009 and in 2010 she graduated in "TV of Quality and Innovation" organized by Televisió de Catalunya and the "Master of Arts "at the London Film School. In Great Britain hse directed the documentary Born Positive (2012) and the two short films Lipstick (2013) and Las pequeñas cosas (2014). Inspired by her autobiographical events, in 2017 Summer 1993, her first and award-winning feature film, was shot in Spain. Among the awards received: best debut film at the Berlinale 2017, 3 Goya awards and 5 Gaudì awards.
