Oriol Estrada (Barcelona, 1983) is a Catalan filmmaker who has produced most of his work in the Dominican Republic. His work is developed between the frontier of fiction and non-fiction. He graduated in film directing from the prestigious International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). In 2012 he founded the production company Faula Films with the aim of providing a creative platform for the development and production of independent films in the Dominican Republic. He has co-directed and co-produced with fellow Dominican filmmaker Natalia Cabral, the documentaries “Tu y Yo” (2014), “El Sitio de los Sitios” (2016), and the fictions “Miriam Miente” (2018) and “Una Película Sobre Parejas” (2021).
His work has been selected and awarded in important international festivals such as Locarno, Visions du Réel, Karlovy Vary, IDFA, Malaga, Biarritz, Huelva, Chicago, Hamburg, Gijon, Havana, Guadalajara, among others. It has also been presented at renowned cultural venues such as the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Cinemateca de Bogotá, the Anthology Film Archives, the Cineteca Madrid and the Filmoteca de Cataluña.
