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 funded by ICEC, ICAA, and MEDIA, had its world premiere in Official Competition at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, winning the Best Acting award in 2024. Distributed nationally by Filmax and internationally by Visit Films, the film has been selected at multiple international festivals such as Warsaw, Tallinn, San Sebastián, and São Paulo. It was nominated for the Gaudí Awards for Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Actor.

Deriva, l'amor a batzegades by Alba Cros was selected for the second edition of the Catalan Film Academy’s Screenwriters’ Residency, and Memorial by Sergi Pérez is currently in pre-production. The latter project was selected for the ECAM Incubator, awarded the Filmin Prize at the ECAM FORUM, and the Abycine Lanza Prize at the Mallorca Talent Lab, and was also selected for the Green Production Lab.

In the documentary field, in 2023 it co-produced Néixer per néixer by Pablo García Pérez de Lara, which was screened at festivals such as D’A, L’Atlàntida Film Fest, and Abycine, and premiered on 3CAT and Filmin. In 2025, Born at night, the latest project by Alba Cros, will premiere.

Internationally, it has participated in scouting services for Element Pictures (Ireland) for the film The Governesses by Joe Talbot, and is currently co-producing Al Futuro, a Costa Rican production by award-winning director Paz Fábrega, with the support of 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 continued her professional career in the film industry alongside Catalan filmmaker Isabel Coixet. In 2018, she joined her 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 at the San Sebastián Film Festival in official competition. The documentary was 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. She is currently continuing to learn and develop in the world of production thanks to producer Carla Sospedra (Edna Cinema), with whom she works to promote new voices and projects within the Catalan film scene.

Her latest project as production manager was the short film Born at night, directed by filmmaker Alba Cros Pellisé and screened at festivals such as Queer Lisboa, Women Make Waves, the Gijón Film Festival, and Chéries Chéris.

At the same time, she assists artist Elena Baliarda in the management and production of her artistic pieces. Her latest traveling performance, The Presence, opened the Badalona Focus Week of the 15th edition of the European nomadic biennial Manifesta and was shown this summer at the Sommerwerft festival in Frankfurt.