Claudia Ortega

Claudia Ortega Olivares (born in Benidorm, 1995) moved to the capital city of Madrid to study Dramatic Arts at CITM. After graduating, she attended a dramaturgy workshop with Sanchís Sinisterra and two annual workshops at EdE Madrid, focusing on novel and script writing. That summer, she traveled to Cuba to attend an acting direction workshop at EICTV, San Antonio de los Baños. Upon her return, she began studying Film and Television Scriptwriting at ECAM, from which she graduated in 2021. In 2019, she started her journey as a theater director with “Azul o canción a un poeta suicida,” a play she premiered with her company La Frágil at RESAD and various alternative venues in Madrid, such as Umbral de Primavera, where she also premiered “Nuestros hijos” in March 2021. In 2021, she began her master’s degree in narrative at EdE Madrid.As a screenwriter, she has developed the fictional feature film “Beroa,” a project that won the Cantabriafilmfestival2020, participated in the Laboratorio Fire 2021 in Barcelona, was selected in forums like Abycine Lanza 2021, and was part of the youth section of the Berlinale 2022. It also won the first prize for a young project at Lesgaicinema 2021, Cantabria’s grants in 2021, and participated in Atlántidafilmfest 2022. She is currently developing “Oh, cariño,” her first fictional feature film as a screenwriter and director. It participated in the Cima Impulsa 2021 program, Ibicine2022 Pitch program, Fire Lab 2022 in Barcelona (where it won the award for best feature film project by the festival and best screenplay by DAMA), and the Summer Camp of the Academy of Cinema 2023. She has just finished shooting her first fictional short film as a director, “¿Por qué lloran las chicas?” which won the Skyline Film Festival 2023 in Benidorm.Additionally, she has worked at Alpha Productions as a screenwriter and director, and as a script reader and analyst at festivals and laboratories such as Labdelnorte 2023.