Avelina Prat

Avelina Prat is an architect. She practiced the profession for a few years before dedicating herself to the cinema. Since 2004 she has worked as a script in more than thirty feature films, together with directors such as Fernando Trueba, Manuel Martín Cuenca, Javier Rebollo, Alberto Morais, David Trueba or Lucile Hadzihalilovic. She has also been a programmer at the International Youth Cinema Festival in Valencia.She is the scriptwriter and director of the documentaries [On set with] Lilly Reich, Los niños de la Ropavejera, and the short films 208 words, Puerta 6, La fábrica de luz, El abrigo rojo and 3/105. The latter, co-directed with Diego Opazo, was selected at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.She has recently released her first feature film as a scriptwriter and director, Vasil, produced by Distinto Films and Activist 38 (Bulgaria). The film has been awarded six Berlanga Awards and the Best Actor Award (ex aequo for Karra Elejalde and Ivan Barnev) at SEMINCI.She is currently working on her second feature film that will be produced again by Distinto Films together with O Som e a Fúria (Portugal).