From the producer of SUMMER 1993

Life is made of many truths... Lara Pérez Camiña +34 648 253 370 [email protected]

Calle Lincoln 11, 2º 4ª Passeig de Sant Joan 146, Entlo 1 Calle León nº 17, 1º D 08006 Barcelona (Spain) 08037 Barcelona (Spain) 28014 Madrid (Spain) +34 933 684 608 +34 930 080 618 +34 910 406 728 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Celia, an 11-year-old girl, studies in a nun school in Zaragoza and lives with her mother. Brisa, a new companion recently arrived from Barcelona, pushes her towards a new stage in her life: adolescence. On this trip, in the Spain of the Expo and the 1992 Olympic Games, Celia discovers that life is made of many truths and some lies. Andrea Fandos

Natalia de Molina (Elisa & Marcela, Kiki Love to Love) Zoe Arnao Julia Sierra Francesca Piñón

Director & Writer: Pilar Palomero D.O.P: Daniela Cajías Sound: Amanda Villavieja Original Score: Carlos Naya Art Designer: Mónica Bernuy Costumer Designer: Arantxa Ezquerro Make up & Hair stylist: Carmen Arbúes Casting: Gisela Krenn Editor: Sofi Escudé Title: Schoolgirls (Las Niñas) Genre: Drama Status: Completed Year: 2020 Runtime: 97 min Language: Spanish Aspect ratio: 1.37 Budget: 1,2M€ Production companies: Inicia Films, Bteam Pictures, Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E. Distributor: Bteam

From the age of 4 to 14, I went And I believe my education to an all-girls nuns’ school. We consisted of a poorly digested wore a uniform, we confessed mix of those two worlds. Why? at least once a week and we Because we grew up having attended Mass every Wednes- as an example an outdated day. The majority of my teach- model of self-sacrificing, car- ers were nuns and they talked ing) and another, more mod- about Heaven and Hell, sin, ern model, but highly sexual- chastity... Then, when we girls ised (with which we were daily left class, we came across a bombarded and still are) and, highly different reality: that of at the same time, we were the Spain at the beginning of the first generation of women in 90s. With the benefit of hind- Spain that were encouraged sight, I realise that I received to be whatever we wanted to an education that was halfway be: to study, to be independ- between two worlds: a tradi- ent, women of the future... In tional and conservative one, conclusion, Schoolgirls is the coming directly from the soci- story of many of the women of ety prior to the Spanish transi- today, told through the edu- tion; and the other world, that cation they received from the of a country that was looking Spain of 1992. at the future thirsting for pro- gress and modernity. Pilar Palomero Born in Zaragoza (Spain), Pilar Produced by Inicia Films and Palomero graduated in His- BTeam Pictures, the project panic Philology by the Uni- was selected in several devel- versity of Zaragoza. In 2013 opment programs like Cine she attended the Master on Qua Non Lab, Cima Mentor- Film Direction at Film Factory ing, Media Sources, L’Alter- (Sarajevo) under Béla Tarr’s nativa Profesionales, Pustnik mentorship. Before that, she Writers Residence and in had worked for several years the coproduction markets of as script writer and teacher. 14º Coproduction Meeting Her short films have been of Guadalajara Film Festival presented in several Festivals, (Mexico), Holland Film Meet- like Warsaw International Film ing of the Netherlands Film Festival, DocumentaMadrid, Festival, Small is Beautiful of D’A Film Festival of Barcelo- Spagnolas in París and Aby- na, Sarajevo Film Festival, Doc cine Lanza. Lisboa, Sant Luis International Film Festival, Huesca Film Fes- Palomero’s filmography as tival, Málaga Film Festival, or script-writer and director: Busan International Short Films Schoolgirls (2020, 97 min) Festival. She has been Berlina- Horta (2017, 15 min) le Talents 2017 and Sarajevo Zismko sunce (2017, 37 min) Talents 2016 alumna. School- La noche de todas las cosas girls is her first feature film as (2016, 18 min) scriptwriter and director. Niño balcón (2009, 10 min) Valérie Delpierre INICIA FILMS

Valérie Delpierre (included Laura Ferrés, winner of the among the producers rising Gaudí® and Goya® awards, stars list by Screen, Cannes awarded at the Semaine de la 2018), created Inicia Films Critique de Cannes 2017 and in 2006 with the aim of nominated at the European developing new talents with Film Awards. Thanks to these special attention to their successes, Valérie received international appeal. the 2017 Woman of the Year Award given by the magazine Since then, she has produced Fotogramas. documentaries and fiction, shorts and feature films. In 2020, she released Pilar Palomero’s first fiction feature Valérie’s latest projects have Schoolgirls (Las niñas). It been Summer 1993, a premiered at Berlinale 2020 fiction feature film directed and won 4 Spanish Academy’s by Carla Simón, chosen to Goya® Awards, including Best represent Spain at the Oscars® Film. She also produced 2018 and premiered at the David Ilundaín’s latest project Berlinale 2017, where it One for all (Uno para todos), received the award for best which premiered at Miami Film Opera Prima; and the short Festival, and she is currently film The disinherited by working on new projects. Álex Lafuente BTEAM PICTURES

Álex Lafuente, graduate in has produced Between two Audiovisual Communication waters (Entre dos aguas), by at the Ramon Llull University Isaki Lacuesta, winner of the (Barcelona) and in Film & En- Golden Shell in San Sebastian tertainment Business at UCLA Film Festival 2018; A thief’s (Los Angeles), has worked in daughter (La hija de un film distribution and produc- ladrón), the first film by Belén tion. In 2012, he and Rosana Funes which won Best Actress Tomás produced the film The in San Sebastian 2019 and bride (La novia) by Paula premiered internationally at Ortiz, which was nominated London BFI; and Schoolgirls for 12 Goya® Prizes and won (Las niñas), debut film by Pilar the Feroz Prize for Best Film Palomero, coproduced by Ini- in 2015. In 2013, he founded cia Films (Summer 1993). He the independent cinema dis- is currently developing three tributor Bteam Pictures with new projects: Nely Reguera’s Lara P. Camiña and Ania Jones The grandson (El nieto) in distributor of, among others, co-production with Fasten Lady Macbeth by William Ol- Films; Bluebeard, an adapta- droyd and A fantastic wom- tion of Charles Perrault classic an (Una mujer fantástica) tale, to be directed by Paula by Sebastián Lelio (Oscars® Ortiz; and Teresa, a modern 2018 - Best Foreign Language biopic of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Film). As producer, in addition to be directed also by Ortiz. to The bride (La novia), he