Elia Urquiza (Pamplona, 1979) is a filmmaker and producer. Elia made her first documentary, De Carmen a Carmen, within her Master's Programme in Creative Documentary Film at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Since then, she has written, shot, and edited many films, often at the crossroads of documentary and fiction. In 2005, she took part in the group documentary project Entre el dictador y yo. In 2006, she paid tribute to two of her favourite directors, Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, in Historia de un niño, shown in their exhibition at Barcelona's Centre de Cultura Contemporània (CCCB). Granted a scholarship from Fundación "la Caixa" in 2007, she entered the Film Directing Programme at CalArts, the California Institute of the Arts, where she was able to tap into fiction film. In 2010, she got a grant from Navarra's Government to complete here graduate studies in Los Angeles, under the tutorship of Monte Hellman.
At this moment she makes publicity to Latin market at the United States and her first full-length documentary, Next, is in post-production.
