Carmen Vidal, winner of thirteen NY Emmy® Awards,a Student Academy Award® (Oscar) and Two Telly Awards, Carmen Vidal is a Spanish-American filmmaker and TV producer. Her work has been exhibited in international film festivals, as well as the United Nations, ARTE TV, PBS, LeMonde.fr, and the MoMA. 

She has worked as a TV producer for the show “Nueva York” (CUNY TV), about Latinos in New York. She is the director of the feature documentaries EXILIOS (Spain/Mexico, 2020) and Retrats Spain / Mexico 2019). For Le Monde, she co-directed with journalist Marta Martínez the short documentary Tanzanie: un mariage entre femmes qui défie la tradition (2019) about Tanzanian women’s difficult access to the land. Other highlights of her work include the short films El Eclipse, Slate, and 6 a.m.. 

She is currently editing a social documentary shot in Paraguay and is in pre-production of her next short fiction film that we are shooting in Ibiza, her native island.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2023 for Best Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Short Content for SURVIVING AS A TRANS WOMAN.

Winner of NY Emmy® Award 2022 to Best Human Interest Segment for LA MORADA (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Winner of NY Emmy® Award 2022 to Best Magazine Show for NUEVA YORK (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Winner of Telly® Award Bronze to Best Television: Cultural Series for the show LATiNAS – Second

Season (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Winner of NY Emmy® Award 2021 to Best Sports Story for BOXING MENDEZ (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Winner of NY Emmy® Award 2021 to Best Magazine Show for Nueva York: Summer Special (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Winner of Telly® Award Silver General/Cultural for the show LATiNAS – Best of First Season (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Nominated to NY Emmy® Award 2020 to Best Magazine Show for Nueva York: Best of Season 14 (CUNY TV). Producer/Editor.

Winner of IWMF (International Women Media Fund) with Marta Martínez. FOR THE LOVE OF LAND. Documentary short film.

Winner Innovation inDevelopment Reporting grantfromthe European Journalism Centerwith Marta Martínez. FOR THE LOVE OF LAND. Documentary shortfilm.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2018 to Best Political Segment. 2018. WOMEN’S MARCH, New York, CUNY TV. Co-Producer with Sarah Foudy and Diana Vargas.

Winner of the Best Local Film Award at the Festival Curtmetratges Festes SantBartumeu. EL ECLIPSE. Fiction Short Film. 2018

Nominated to the NY Emmy® Award 2017 to BestReligious Segment. 2017. SALESIANS, New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Nominated to the NY Emmy® Award 2017 to BestMagazine Program. 2017. NEW YORK. Best of Season 11. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2014 to Best Cultural Magazine. 2014. NEW YORK. Best of Season 8. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2013 to Best Cultural Segment. 2013. NEW YORK. Fernando Pérez. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2012 to Best Cultural Magazine. 2012. NUEVA YORK. Best of Season 6. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2011 to Best Cultural Magazine. 2011. NUEVA YORK. Best of Season 5. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2010 to Best Cultural Magazine. 2010. NUEVA YORK. Best of Season 4. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the Annual Communicator Award of Excellence to BestCultural Program 2010. NUEVA YORK. Episode #42. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Winner of the NY Emmy® Award 2009 to Best Cultural Magazine. 2009. NUEVA YORK. Best of Season 3. New York, CUNY TV. Producer and Editor.

Proclamation with acknowledgement for artistic contributions to the City of New York by Scott Stringer, Manhattan County President. 2008

Winner of the Cityvisions Award for Best Cinematography in Fiction for Coda. 2006.

Winner of a Student Academy Award® by the Academy of Motion Pictures. 2006. 6 a.m. Short film. Director.