Alicia Albares. She studied Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, furthering her training in directing, production, and screenwriting at Instituto del Cine and La Factoría del Guion. She began her professional career at the age of 19, working in the directing and production teams of over fifteen feature films alongside filmmakers such as Gracia Querejeta, Fernando León de Aranoa, and Rodrigo Cortés.
In 2014, she founded YAQ Distribución. Notable works include Al otro lado, Donde caen las hojas, Madres de Luna, La tercera parte, and Esto no es Noruega. She has recently completed her feature film debut with the horror film La mala madre, produced by Admirable Films and Mordisco Films.
In 2023, she published the fantasy short story collection Una rosa en la piedra, followed in 2025 by her first novel, Crisálida, a feminist science fiction story.

Desirée de Fez. Writer, film critic, programmer, and screenwriter. A member of the selection committee of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, she is a critic for El Periódico de Catalunya and Fotogramas, and contributes to the TVE programs Punts de Vista and Historia de nuestro cine. She also hosts and produces the podcast Marea Nocturna (Radio Primavera Sound), devoted to fantasy and horror cinema. She is the author of Reina del grito (Blackie Books), an essay exploring female fears through her personal relationship with horror films, and the novel No la dejes sola (Blackie Books). She has contributed to numerous collective books on cinema, many published in the context of the San Sebastián and Sitges film festivals, and has written several volumes on the work of J.A. Bayona. She is co-writer of Pizza Movies (2026), directed by Carlo Padial.

Lucía Forner Segarra. With a degree in Audiovisual Communication, she completed an MA in Cinematography at ESCAC and further training in filmmaking at the University of Valladolid. She has written, directed, and produced four short films, including Marta (2017), Dana (2020), and Berta (2024), which have garnered over 400 selections at international festivals and nearly a hundred awards and nominations, including two Goya nominations and a longlist selection for the Oscars.
Her work seeks to challenge audience expectations, focusing on female protagonists who defy traditional archetypes, morally ambiguous characters, and stories where comedy, violence, and tragedy coexist. While developing her feature films (two of them with completed scripts that expand the universe of her shorts) she works as a video operator in film and advertising.