Pilar Pérez Solano

Goya Award 2014 for the best documentary film for “Las Maestras de la República”. In 2021 he has directed the documentary series “Caminos de la Música” produced by Prensa Ibérica Audiovisual for Orange TV. With a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, she began her professional career in 1993 as part of Canal+’s own production team, where she was producer, screenwriter and director of many titles and formats, receiving many international awards, such as the nomination for an Emmy Award for the documentary “Lorca in New York”. In 2007 she founded Transit Producciones, making documentaries such as “Murales” with the Joan Miró Foundation, premiered at Tiempo de Historia in Seminci and which represented the Spanish documentary in the “Window to Spain” program in New York. “Las Maestras de la República” premiered internationally in countries such as the USA, China, Mexico, France, Argentina, etc. Her latest documentary feature film, “La Defensa, por la Libertad” has been made in co-production with RTVE in collaboration with the General Council of Spanish Lawyers and premiered in competition at Seminci. She is a member of the Spanish Film Academy and CIMA. She is a founding member of the Valencian Audiovisual Academy. She is a professor in the Documentary and Transmedia Master at the Carlos III University of Madrid. She has been advisor to the Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana for audiovisual issues, with the start-up of the new regional television Àpunt and as President of the Board of Directors of the Ciudad de la Luz film studios in Alicante.