Macu MachÁn is an independent filmmaker from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). She studied filmmaking in Madrid, screenwriting in Cuba (EICTV) and a Master's Degree in Documentary Film at the Universidad del Cine of Buenos Aires. She has worked as a scriptwriter/director of documentaries in Barcelona, Argentina and Canary Islands for production companies like MEDIAPRO, GeoPlaneta and MediaReport. In 2006 she began a series of creative documentary short films about the landscape as ruin and memory. "The Empire of Light" won the Richard Leacock Prize for Best Short Film at the International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria'16 and has participated in prestigious experimental and auteur film festivals such as Curtocircuito, Zinebi and Tenerife Shorts. She also writes about films in specialized magazines such as "Fuera de Campo" (Ecuador) and in the book "Coutinho. Cine de conversaciÁ³n y antropologÁa salvaje" (Argentina, 2013). Her project "The Limbo Line" was supported by Norsk Filmfond, Nordnorsk Filmsenter and participated in Sources 2 Script Development Workshop (MEDIA, Norway and Austria, 2009). Currently Macu continues to explore reality through short films while she is in the development stage with her first feature documentary "Fallen Leaves" (La Hojarasca), selected by CREADOC, follow-up programme for the development of creative documentaries and MiradasDoc Market & Festival 2017 when her pitch won the IFIC Prize.
