Ruth Caudeli Martí

Ruth Caudeli was born in Valencia, Spain. She is a queer director, screenwriter and producer. She has written and directed the feature films 'Eva+Candela' (2018), 'Second star on the right' (2019), 'Leading Ladies' (2021, special mention of the jury in Zonazine Málaga to the entire cast) and "Petit mal" (2022), premiered at the Tribeca film festival in New York. Her films have also premiered at other international festivals such as the Málaga Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles and Frameline; in addition to being candidates for the Sebastiane Latino Award at the San Sebastian Festival, the Platino and Macondo Awards of the Colombian Film Academy, in different categories. She has directed several short films, including 'Late' (2010), 'Porque no' (2016), 'Between walls' (2017), 'EVA menos CANDELA' (2018) and 'Screenshots for a goodbye' (2020), which also were selected and awarded at various international festivals. For television, she has directed the tv series 'Natalia: Crimen y castigo', winner of the 2021 India Catalina Award for best miniseries, the second unit of the series 'Pálpito' for Netflix and the miniseries 'Rosa al amanecer'. Her web series 'Actrices' was nominated for the India Catalina Awards 2021, as well as the web series she co-directed, 'Virales'. In 2019, Indiewire named her "one of the LGBTQ female directors on the rise." She has directed commercials for well-known brands at the production company Ovella Blava Films and is a professor of film and television. She is in pre-production for her next feature films, 'La misma estación', 'La Campana' and her first documentary project 'Mírame'. She is developing several fiction tv series. Her productions stand out for telling stories that put real queer women at the center of their narratives. She has a master's degree in film directing from ESCAC and another in fiction for television from Pompeu Fabra University. She studied audiovisual communication at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she obtained the end-of-course award.