Barcelona, December 5, 2024 - Producer, director and screenwriter Maria Colomer is the new head of programming and artistic co-director at DocsBarcelona. Colomer joins forces at the head of the artistic direction with the current head of Industry, Èric Motjer, to lead together the creative and strategic vision of DocsBarcelona.
Colomer (Barcelona, 1994) takes over from Anna Petrus, who has held the position of head of programming and artistic director at DocsBarcelona since 2023 with bold, diverse and committed programmatic proposals.
The new artistic co-direction takes on the task with the will to propose “a festival that not only stands out for its quality, but also becomes an inclusive space for all voices and audiences, from the most rigorous specialization to the most accessible dissemination, embracing everything in between these extremes.”
The new tandem will work, aligned and from the complicity, in the DocsBarcelona 2025, which from May 8 to 18 will bring to Barcelona 10 days of the best premieres of documentary films, in an edition that will also host the Industry program (May 12-16), meeting point and reference of the professional non-fiction sector in southern Europe, in addition to several parallel activities and visits of filmmakers.
Maria Colomer
After graduating from a Visual Communication degree at Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, she completed the Master of Film and Media at the University of Copenhagen. Her professional career began at The Why Foundation in Denmark, where she worked for six years as a producer of the documentary series Why Stories, broadcast in more than 100 countries through channels like BBC World News. Simultaneously, she collaborated with Nick Fraser on the documentary platform Docsville as an acquisitions assistant.
She combined production work with research in documentaries such as 'Magaluf Ghost Town' by Miguel Ángel Blanca, 'A Storm Foretold' by Christoffer Guldbrandsen, and 'The Mole: Undercover in North Korea' by Mads Brügger, as well as co-wrote her first feature film ‘Les Perseides’, which premiered at BAFICI in April 2019.
Her debut as a co-director, the short documentary 'Diciotto', premiered at Nordisk Panorama in 2020, and her second short documentary, 'The Painter's Room', premiered at the Málaga Film Festival in 2024, and is part of the ShortCat program.
In recent years, she has worked as a producer at Nanouk Films, with the role of executive producer for projects such as the documentary 'Supernatural' by Ventura Durall and the short documentary 'Skin despair' de la pell by Mireia Vilapuig. She has also coordinated productions such as the TV movie 'Sis Nits d’Agost' and the feature film 'Quest'.
Currently, she’s an executive producer at Glia Films, a young documentary production company she co-founded together with Ventura Durall. Additionally, she’s on the board of the association of producers, PROA, and the vice president of ProDocs.
