Us

Arthouse films with the desire to look at the invisible.

Edna Cinema is a production company founded by Carla Sospedra Salvadó (IMDB) with the aim of discovering and supporting emerging filmmakers who explore their own unique cinematic perspective. We are committed to a way of making films that places care, respect, and creative freedom at its core, creating collaborative workspaces from a feminist, intersectional, and transformative perspective.

We are interested in cinema that questions, that moves, and that proposes; films that dare to look from the margins and spark questions. We produce stories with emotional depth, artistic vision, and social relevance. We believe in cinema as a language of resistance, as a tool to imagine other possible worlds and to rethink the relationship between cinema and activism.

Mamífera by Liliana Torres, co-produced with Distinto Films and with the participation of 3Cat and RTVE and funding from ICEC, ICAA, and MEDIA, which premiered worldwide in the Official Competition at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, winning the award for Best Performance in 2024. Distributed nationally by Filmax and internationally by Visit Films, it was nominated for the Gaudí Awards for Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Actor, as well as being a candidate for the Spirit Awards. It has been screened at festivals such as SSIFF, Warsaw, Tallinn, and the Mostra de Sao Paulo. In the field of documentary film, in 2023 it co-produced Born to Be Born by Pablo García Pérez de Lara, which was screened at festivals such as D'A, L'Atlantida Film Fest, and Abycine in 2023 and premiered on 3CAT and Filmin. The short film Born at Night, directed by Catalan filmmaker Alba Cros and distributed by Marvin & Wayne, premiered at Queer Lisboa 2025 and has been screened at festivals such as Women Make Waves, the Gijón Film Festival, Chéries Cheris and recently at the D’A Barcelona Film Festival 2026.

Currently in pre-production: Memorial by Sergi Pérez, co-produced with Bteam and Sumendi, selected for the ECAM Incubator, winner of the Filmin Award at the ECAM FORUM and the Abycine Lanza Award at the Mallorca Talent Lab, and with production support from the ICEC, the ICAA, HBO and 3Cat. Climacteric by director Liliana Torres, in co-production with Distinto Films, received the GAC Treatment Writing Grant and has production support from the ICEC, the ICAA, and MEDIA. Outcome, the first fiction film by director Ainara Vera, is currently in development thanks to support from the ICEC, the XII SGAE Screenwriting Laboratory, and MAFIZ. It participated in Abycine LANZA un IMPULSO CMM Desarrollo, where it won the Porto/Post/Doc award. At the latter festival, it was awarded the FIDMarseille prize. And finally, Radio Pati, a documentary by Pau Bacardit co-produced by Debut and Vayolet, selected for Rec Lab 2025, where it won the Deluxe Nacional Award in the Primer Test category, and for the Talent Lab at the D’A Film Festival 2026, where it won all three Panorama Catalunya awards (Neurads, Antaviana, and AMMAC).

Internationally, Edna has participated in scouting services for Element Pictures (Ireland) for Joe Talbot's film The Governess, and is currently co-producing Al Futuro, a Costa Rican production by award-winning director Paz Fábrega, which is supported by the ICEC's minority co-production fund.

 

Carla Sospedra Salvadó

Executive Producer

Carla Sospedra Salvadó

She is an alumni of the EAVE Producers Workshop, Berlinale Talents, and the ECAM Incubator, as well as vice president of Dones Visuals.

She has produced, among others, the short films by Belén Funes (Sara a la Fuga, La Inútil), Ingrid Santos (Beef), and Carla Simón (Después También and Correspondencias, co-directed by Dominga Sotomayor). In the documentary field, she has produced Escuchando al juez Garzón (Goya for Best Documentary 2011), El espíritu de la Pintura, Cai Guo Qiang en el Prado (The Spirit of Painting, Cai Guo Qiang at the Prado) and El Techo Amarillo (The Yellow Ceiling) (SSIFF official competition, IDFA, Hot Docs, Gaudí Award 2023 for Best Documentary), all by Isabel Coixet, and Palabras, mapas, secretos y otras cosas (Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things) by Elena Trapé. She has also collaborated as associate producer and production manager on Isabel Coixet's Yesterday Never Ends (Biznaga de Plata for Best Film at the 2013 Malaga Film Festival, premiered at the Berlinale) and participated as executive producer in the pre-production of Carla Simón's Alcarràs (Golden Bear Berlin 2022).

In 2021, she premiered ¿Qué hicimos mal? (What Went Wrong?), Liliana Torres' second feature film, in official competition at the Seville European Film Festival, PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights, and the Miami Film Fest.

That same year, she created her own production company, Edna Cinema, with the aim of discovering, accompanying, and creatively producing emerging filmmakers. In 2024, Liliana Torres' Mamífera premiered at SXSW in Official Competition (Best Performance Award) and was nominated for the Gaudí Awards for Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress. The film has been screened at festivals such as SSIFF, Warsaw, Tallinn, and São Paulo.

Ana Sánchez Palomo

Head of Development

Ana Sánchez Palomo

With a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management, she continues her professional career in the film industry under the guidance of Catalan filmmaker Isabel Coixet. In 2018, she joined Coixet’s production company, Miss Wasabi Films, where she performed various support and production tasks on projects such as Foodie Love for HBO and Nieva en Benidorm, produced by El Deseo. Two years later, she made her debut as a production manager in the documentary field with The Yellow Ceiling, produced by Miss Wasabi Films and premiered in the official competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival. The documentary screened at festivals such as IDFA and HOT DOCS, was nominated for the Goya Awards, and won the Gaudí Award for Best Documentary in 2023.

Currently, she continues to work in the industry alongside producer Carla Sospedra at Edna Cinema, with whom she collaborates to promote new voices and projects within the Catalan film scene. Her latest project as a production manager was the short film Born at Night, directed by Alba Cros Pellisé and distributed by Marvin & Wayne, which screened at festivals such as Queer Lisboa, Women Make Waves, the Gijón Film Festival, Chéries Chéris, and the D’A Film Festival Barcelona (2026). She has complemented her training with studies in Production Management at the RTVE Institute.

At the same time, she runs The Root, a space for creative and strategic support aimed at artists, where the focus is on working with what is already present in each process to turn it into direction. Far from adding external layers, her approach centers on organizing, understanding, and shaping projects from within.