Estefanía Muñiz
Spanish director
Estefanía Muñiz Villa (León, 8 January 1974) is a Spanish film director, scriptwriter, critic, and author of two poetry books.
Career
Film
Estefanía is an attorney at law who practiced for over five years before finally dedicating herself exclusively to film making. She studied drama at Escuela de Actores (Acting School) with Daniel Cicaré and took various scriptwriting courses at Estudio Internacional with Juan Carlos Corazza and at Escuela de Guión (Scriptwriting School) with Alicia Luna.
Her first release was Construir (2003), a short film codirected with Ana Prieto Gracia starring Carmelo Gómez. Construir was awarded the first prize at The Torino Film Festival and was broadcast on the Swedish and Norwegian television for a long period of time.
She then directed two other short films. The first one. No me quieras tanto (2003), was awarded Best Video Creation at the Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, and the second prize at the Jerez Short Film Festival, Best Gender Equality Short Film at the Villareal Film Festival, and the Jury Prize at the Valladolid La Fila Film Festival, among others.
Recognition outside Europe came with her third short film Ecos (2006), starring Mercè Llorens and the Armenian origin violinist Ara Malikian, who also composed the film’s music. Ecos received the first prize at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Short Film at the Lago Film Festival of Treviso, Italy, and Best soundtrack at the Sant Sadurní Film Festival.
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