Patricia Franquesa is a Spanish film producer and filmmaker. With a Degree in Audiovisual Communication at Ramon Llull University and a MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University.
I have lived in London and in Tel Aviv.
I love creating new ways to tell stories.
From 2012 she has been part of the production team of the Heymann Brothers Films in Israel. She was involved in the development, production and distribution on projects such as Mr. Gaga (2015 - ARTE, AVRO, SVT), Before the Revolution (2013 - ITVS), Life in Stills (2011 - Israeli Oscar winner), and Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016 - Berlinale , Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary), among others. In 2013 She met Peabody Award-winning and Emmy® nominated filmmaker Hilla Medalia. She became the production manager of Medalia Productions, where I post-produced the documentary Censored Voices (BBC, ARTE), premiered at Sundance 2015 and Berlinale 2015, and produced Muhi - Generally Temporary (2016 - IDFA). After all these years of learning, in 2016 they founded along with the Catalan producer Laia Zanon, a new platform for audiovisual and multidisciplinary creation. Her production company - Gadea have produced the collaborative documentary S'HIVERN, directed by Pau Pericas. The November 2016, Gadea together with Cacerola Films in Mexico, will premiere LA MAMI, documentary feature film directed by award-winning director Laura Herrero Garvín - with the support of IMCINE (Instituto de Cinematografía Mexicana), FOPROCINE and the Ibermedia Program. She was selected at the industry program Match Me! of Locarno Film Festival 2019 with the support of ICAA, as emerging talent in the field of Spanish cinema, has been mentioned in Variety as “part of the rising swell of young female filmmakers now energizing Spanish cinema at big ".
Patricia Franquesa’s debut documentary portraying the deconstruction of the preconceived character of Sara Bahai, the first female taxi driver in Afghanistan (Cultiva Artist Fund Norway, ICEC-Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises), LA UNION feature length fiction by Cordelia Alegre, co-produced with Colombian producer Jaime Guerrero Naudin. They are developing OLE MI COÑO, the story of author Franquesa being victim of, what it’s called now, ransomware. A mafia of hackers kidnapped all the information from her personal computer and started blackmailing her with her own data. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data, and we want to explore it with multidisciplinary storytelling and creative collaboration.
I have lived in London and in Tel Aviv.
I love creating new ways to tell stories.
From 2012 she has been part of the production team of the Heymann Brothers Films in Israel. She was involved in the development, production and distribution on projects such as Mr. Gaga (2015 - ARTE, AVRO, SVT), Before the Revolution (2013 - ITVS), Life in Stills (2011 - Israeli Oscar winner), and Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016 - Berlinale , Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary), among others. In 2013 She met Peabody Award-winning and Emmy® nominated filmmaker Hilla Medalia. She became the production manager of Medalia Productions, where I post-produced the documentary Censored Voices (BBC, ARTE), premiered at Sundance 2015 and Berlinale 2015, and produced Muhi - Generally Temporary (2016 - IDFA). After all these years of learning, in 2016 they founded along with the Catalan producer Laia Zanon, a new platform for audiovisual and multidisciplinary creation. Her production company - Gadea have produced the collaborative documentary S'HIVERN, directed by Pau Pericas. The November 2016, Gadea together with Cacerola Films in Mexico, will premiere LA MAMI, documentary feature film directed by award-winning director Laura Herrero Garvín - with the support of IMCINE (Instituto de Cinematografía Mexicana), FOPROCINE and the Ibermedia Program. She was selected at the industry program Match Me! of Locarno Film Festival 2019 with the support of ICAA, as emerging talent in the field of Spanish cinema, has been mentioned in Variety as “part of the rising swell of young female filmmakers now energizing Spanish cinema at big ".
Patricia Franquesa’s debut documentary portraying the deconstruction of the preconceived character of Sara Bahai, the first female taxi driver in Afghanistan (Cultiva Artist Fund Norway, ICEC-Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises), LA UNION feature length fiction by Cordelia Alegre, co-produced with Colombian producer Jaime Guerrero Naudin. They are developing OLE MI COÑO, the story of author Franquesa being victim of, what it’s called now, ransomware. A mafia of hackers kidnapped all the information from her personal computer and started blackmailing her with her own data. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data, and we want to explore it with multidisciplinary storytelling and creative collaboration.