María Gisèle Royo

She has been awarded a Student Academy Award, an Emmy College Student Award and the Premio Fundación Buesa y Extremadocs. María has participated in several international film festivals like Seville European Film Festival, CamerImage, One World Romania and Huesca Film Festival. In the midst of the economic crisis, María founded an audiovisual production company that has developed since 2011. With it, she has come to present her work at a public hearing in the European Parliament, and at the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. She is a born collaborator : among other movies, she has worked in El Silencio de Otros”, winner of two Emmys and the Peace and Audience awards at Berlinale. She also participated in “H.” as Art Director, winner of an Independent Spirit Award, premiering at Venice Film festival, to then go to Sundance and Berlinale, among many others. She is currently also teaching in Berlin at the BA and Master of Film at the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology. For a year, she crossed the Pan-American highway when Google Maps didn’t exist; The ON THE GO spirit is in her blood.