Anna Fernandez De Paco

Anna Fernández de Paco is a filmmaker and visual artist whose teaching is informed by an active artistic practice and research. She is currently developing her first feature-length film while preparing her PhD project, The Poetics of Home in Art and Cinema. Her work has been screened and awarded at international festivals, including La Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival, and she has exhibited video and installation works internationally. She completed a Master’s degree in Film Directing under the mentorship of the great master of cinema Béla Tarr, within a pedagogical context conceived to liberate rather than educate and shaped by workshops with leading figures such as Jacques Rancière, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Juliette Binoche, Atom Egoyan, Carlos Reygadas, and Cristian Mungiu. She holds a BA (Hons) in Video Arts Production from the University for the Creative Arts (UK), following earlier training in fashion and garment design at Felicidad Duce (now LCI Barcelona), Spain. Alongside her artistic practice, she has worked for over a decade as a videographer, primarily based in London and internationally, filming major cultural figures such as Werner Herzog, Patti Smith, Slavoj Žižek, and Umberto Eco, among others in contemporary culture.