Barbara Celis

She is a journalist from Madrid who covers arts & culture, American politics and breaking news for El Pais in New York. She is also a regular contributor for Spanish Vogue, Spanish Rolling Stone, ARS Magazine, Ioncinema.com. Her feature articles have been published in the LA Weekly, GQ Spain, Gentleman, the Italian daily La Repubblica and Il diario della settimana, among others. She worked as a NY international affairs correspondent for El Correo, Europa Press and La Voz de Galicia and as a freelance TV producer for Spanish and Italian networks. Her passion for cinema brought her into the film production business, where she worked for three years as one of the main producers of The Family Film Productions in New York. Guerrilla filmmaking exhausted her so she returned to her primary passion, journalism, although she couldn't give up movies completely. She is the director of the documentary feature Surviving Amina, which has been selected in festivals such as Seminci, Fidocs, DocsDF, Visions du Reel, New Filmmakers NY and others since 2010. Barbara Celis is also the recipient of the 2009 USC/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship.