The filmmaker Patricia Ferreira has died at the age of 65 as a result of a brain tumor, as has emerged. Born in Madrid, she began her career as a journalist after studying Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. Specialized in film criticism and information, she worked at RTVE and also at Fotogramas until she made the leap to work as a filmmaker, director and screenwriter. Member of the Film Academy, Ferreira has been characterized by fighting for equality in the film sector and she was co-founder of the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media CIMA, to whose board of directors she has been a member since 2006.

She started in television working as a director, scriptwriter or director. of TV movies, broadcasts and documentary series like ‘Equinox‘, on Latin American themes; ‘A day in the life of our ancestors’which recreated life in prehistory, or several chapters of ‘A country in the backpack’touring Spain with José Antonio Labordeta, among others.

Her film debut in 2000 was in style and she was nominated for a Goya for best new director. with his first work ‘I know who you are’. In total he was up for three statuettes and won one, for best music for the composition by José Nieto. With his next work ‘The Impatient Alchemist’ (2002), which adapted the novel by Lorenzo Silva, he won the Film Writers’ Circle award for the adaptation of the script, in addition to two Goya nominations. ‘So that I don’t forget’ (2004) is another of his titles and, in addition to being one of Fernando Fernán Gómez’s last works, it was presented at the Berlin Festival and obtained three Goya nominations.

He returned to the documentary genre in 2010 with ‘Señora de’, which collected the testimonies of several generations of women who did not have the opportunity to dream. Her work also includes several short films with a marked social commitment such as ‘The Best Kept Secret’ (2004), filmed in India and which deals with the incidence of the AIDS virus in the Third World; or ‘The Dawn of Misrak’, filmed in Ethiopia as part of the collective project They are Africa.

with his movie ‘The Wild Children’ (2012) won the Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Festival for best film, in addition to the awards for best script and best supporting actors for Aina Clotet and Álex Monner. In 2017 she returned to direct the feature film ‘Thi Mai, heading to Vietnam’.