Alba Sotorra

Alba Sotorra

Birth : 1980-05-22, Reus, Tarragona, Cataluña, Spain

History

Alba Sotorra Clúa (Reus, Tarragona, May 22, 1980) is a film director, independent producer and Spanish video artist. She studied for a degree in film production at the Complutense University of Madrid, and a Master's degree in Mediterranean Cultural Studies at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona. She continues her professional video postgraduate training and has participated in several documentary workshops, including SOURCES2 through MEDIA (2008), Berlinale Talent Campus (2011), IDFA Academy (2012), Dok Leipzig NetLab (2013), Medimed Cross-media Training (2014) and Dok.Incubator (2014). As an independent producer, she develops her work with experience in filming abroad. Her works present human stories from a personal point of view and intend to open spaces for reflection. She has worked around the world, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cuba, the United States, Guatemala, England, Iran, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Qatar, and Syria. She has organized the «Espai Líquid», a video, music and performance festival in Tarragona and actively participates in the Ixmucane NGO in Guatemala that supports Mayan girls so they can study. In 2015-2016 she worked on a transmedia project on climate engineering and also on a documentary about subversive maternities.

Profile

Alba Sotorra
Alba Sotorra
Alba Sotorra

Movies

Sica
Producer
Waiting for answers that don’t seem to come, Sica stares at the waves crashing against the coastal rocks. Her father, a fisherman, drowned in the sea. In an isolated corner of the world, Sica doesn’t lose hope. Even if she needs to go against the current.
Kobane
Co-Producer
Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.
Les altres coses que ens separen
Executive Producer
Three college friends go on a creative retreat in the countryside to finish their dissertations. After university, Jana is planning on moving to Canada to study and Alba and Zoe want to live together. The hours spent together and the questions that emerge at the end of this chapter in their lives will mark their time in the house with nostalgia and an impending farewell.
The Return: Life After ISIS
Producer
Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries to join ISIS. When they return, their countries don't want them back.
The Return: Life After ISIS
Director
Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries to join ISIS. When they return, their countries don't want them back.
The End Will Be Spectacular
Executive Producer
Zilan, a young woman, returns to her home town looking for traces of her dead brother, killed by ISIS. But her town is not what it used to be: social and political tensions have escalated into a state of war. The people have risen up to demand their political autonomy and the police and army repress them with brutal force. But the city’s resistance will go on for more than 100 days and Zilan will not remain a passive witness. Based on the diaries of those who died fighting and the testimony of survivors, who are the protagonists of the film, Çelik's first feature explores concepts such as hope, friendship, sacrifice and loss in the struggle for freedom of a group of young people.
Commander Arian
Director of Photography
On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.
Commander Arian
Director
On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.
Commander Arian
Script
On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.
Game Over
Director
Ferida arrel: Maria-Mercè Marçal
Director
Unveiled Views
Director
Five women talk about their occupations, aspirations, and the rights and status of women in their Muslim countries.
Francesca i l'Amor
Producer
Francesca i l'Amor
Writer
Francesca i l'Amor
Director
Kobani Courtyard
Producer
Four children from Kobane, after years without playing because of war, rediscover their old playground among the rubbles of the destroyed city.
Kobani Courtyard
Director
Four children from Kobane, after years without playing because of war, rediscover their old playground among the rubbles of the destroyed city.