Susana Casares

Susana Casares is a Spanish filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Before moving to LA, she completed a BA in Translation and Interpreting and a BFA in Fine Arts with a special focus in Video Art and Photography. She is a graduate of the Directing MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, having received a scholarship from La Caixa Foundation.

Winner of the Emmy's Foundation prestigious College Television Award in Drama, her narrative and documentary work has been shown in festivals and art institutions around the world. Susana received both the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Award and the Mary Pickford Award for two consecutive years, as well as the support of institutions such as Film Independent, the Tribeca Film Institute and IDFA. Ms. Casares has just been showcased in Variety’s Cannes edition as one of the 10 Spanish talents on the rise.

Before moving to Los Angeles, she was Head of Production at Docs Barcelona Pitching Forum and she taught Art History at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has worked as a screener for the Sundance Documentary Fund and she is currently a Professor at the Film Department at UCLA.