Paula Ortiz is a film director and screenwriter with a Doctorate in Art History. She graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza in 2002 and completed a Master’s in Screenwriting for Film and Television at UAB in 2003. She also received training in film direction at the Graduate Department of Film and TV at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2006 and 2007. Additionally, she pursued master’s studies in screenwriting and literary theory at UCLA in 2008 and 2009, which is a prominent center for film education in Los Angeles.

In March 2012, she released her first feature film, De tu ventana a la mía, starring Maribel Verdú, which received numerous national and international awards and achieved commercial success. In December 2015, she premiered La novia, a loose adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s play “Bodas de Sangre.” The film premiered at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival and received unanimous acclaim from critics. It was also widely nominated and awarded at the 2016 Goya Awards, Feroz Awards, CEC Awards, Paramount Channel Awards, among others, winning awards for Best Direction, Best Film, and Best Adapted Screenplay, among others. Both films, highly successful in the Spanish box office, were distributed internationally in more than 20 countries.

She has also directed series such as En Casa (2020) for HBO and an episode of Historias para no dormir (2020) for Prime Video.

In 2021, she filmed Across the River and into the Trees, an adaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway, with Liev Schreiber as the main protagonist. The film, a major international production shot in Venice, was released in cinemas in that year.

In 2023, Teresa premieres, based on the play La lengua en pedazos by Juan Mayorga (National Literature Award), starring Blanca Portillo and Asier Etxeandia.

In 2024, La Virgen Roja premieres at the San Sebastián Film Festival, an original Prime Video production starring Najwa Nimri.

“LA VIRGEN  ROJA”. 2024

Festival de San Sebastián. Official Section, out of competition.”

“TERESA”. 2024.

Cinema Writers Circle Awards:

• Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay Award

Premios Feroz:

• Nomination for Arrebato Feroz  Award: Fiction
• International Festival of Valladolid
• Nomination for Best Film

“LA NOVIA”. 2015.

Goya Awards:

• Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
• Nomination for Best Director.

Gaudí Awards:

• Nomination for Best Film in a non-Catalan language.

Cinema Writers Circle Awards:

• Best Adapted Screenplay Award.
• Nomination for Best Film.
• Best Director nomination.

Feroz Awards:

• Best Fiction Award.
• Best Film Award: Drama.
• Best Screenplay nomination.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival:

• Grand Prize Nomination.

Turia Awards:

• Best Director Award.

“DE TU VENTANA A LA MÍA”. 2011.

Goya Awards:

• Nomination for Best New Director.
• Nomination for Best Original Song.

Dhaka International Film Festival:

• Best Fiction Award.

Shanghai International Film Festival:

• Best Film nomination.
• Valladolid International Festival:
• Best Director Award.
• Best Film nomination.

“EL ROSTRO DE IDO”. 2003.

• Zaragoza film festival:
• Premio del público.