CV Concha Barquero

Filmmaker, teacher, researcher and film programmer. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Malaga (1999) and a Master's Degree in Scriptwriting for Film and Television from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2000). She has formed a creative tandem with Alejandro Alvarado since 2001. As a professional, he has combined cultural and informative television with documentary filmmaking. His work has been present in audiovisual and film competitions around the world such as the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina), European Media Art in Osnabrück (Germany) and Doclisboa (Portugal), and has been broadcast on television channels such as Canal Plus, TVE, Canal Historia, the Ibero-American Cultural Educational Television network and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

For a decade he was a scriptwriter for the programmes Theses and Theses in the international (2001-11) on Canal Sur Andalucía, a benchmark television programme backed by numerous awards such as the Prize for the Best National Programme of Scientific Dissemination at the XXVI Biennial of Scientific Cinema in Ronda or the First Television Prize of the Advisory Council of RTVE of Andalusia, awarded to a report on gender violence. He has directed the social documentaries The Reverse Side of Reality (2007) y Warmi. Some notes on La Paz and its women (2014), produced for the International Relations and Cooperation Service of the University of Malaga and the Junta de Andalucía. Andalusian Agency for Cooperation (AACID).

His feature-length documentary Pepe the Andalusian (2012) and his short film Descartes (2021) are their most important works, which have won numerous awards, such as the XXIX Andalusia Journalism Award (audiovisual modality), the Award for Best Spanish Documentary at X Documenta Madrid or the Grand Prize for Spanish Cinema at Zinebi. They have been screened at festivals, cinemas, museums and cultural centres in Europe, Latin America and Africa.

In the academic field, she is the author of a dozen publications related to documentary film. She has participated, among others, in the books Documentary film in Spain: history, aesthetics and identity (Chair, 2023), Feminisms, violence and social networks: Iberoamerican practices and strategies against hate speeches (Peter Lang, 2022) or No se está quieto. New Documentary Forms in Hispanic Audiovisuals (Iberoamericana and Vervuert, 2016). Internationally, she has been invited on twenty occasions as a guest lecturer at prestigious universities and cultural centres such as New York University (2014), the Arteleku Contemporary Art Centre (2013) and the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2012).

He is currently a member of the R&D projects Palestinian women's human rights: stories of resilience in times of covid-19, Resilience and socio-educational accompaniment in the social inclusion of Ex-Mena youth. y Educating from the margins: inclusion and resilience of young people in deprived urban areasstudying the application of documentaries to social projects. In this field, she is part of the team that has been awarded the Prize of the III Social Projects Research Contest (2022) of the FOESSA Foundation. She was also a member of the Andalusian Observatory of male violence in the audiovisual media of the University of Malaga (2013-14), a Project of Excellence of the Andalusian Regional Government.

Since 2013 she has been a collaborator of the Malaga Festival. Cine en Español, member of the selection committee of the Official Documentary Film Section (2014-2022) and coordinator of Málaga Docs. Documentary Film Encounter (2016-2023). She is the programming coordinator of the Sala de los Cineastas Málaga, a cycle organised by the association Unión de Cineastas, in collaboration with the Malaga Festival, the University of Malaga and the Cine Albéniz (2016-2023).