Celia Galán

Celia Galán is a director and screenwriter from Barcelona, with a BA in Audiovisual Communication from the UAB, a scholarship from La Caixa/The British Council and an MA in Animation Direction from the Royal College of Art in London.

Her stop motion animation graduation film DESERT STORY won the second prize at the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 and was selected in over a hundred festivals (including Sitges Film Festival, Sundance and Edinburgh), taking home several international awards at Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Philadelphia and Toronto, among others.

In 2004 she was invited as an Artist in Residence in Berlin by the DAAD and later wrote and directed the science fiction short film ONE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT, winner of the Cinema Extreme grant from the UK Film Council and Film Four, and awarded the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Shortly after, she was selected to attend the Cinéfondation Residency at the Cannes Festival in Paris, where she developed the script for the feature film ROSITA GUZMÁN IS ALIVE, which participated in the Atelier de Cannes, Cinemart in Rotterdam and was a European finalist for the Sundance/NHK Screenplay Award 2009.

In 2011 she returned to Barcelona and co-founded the film and advertising production company CELOFÁN, where she combines her work as an advertising director with screenwriting and film direction. In 2018 she wrote and directed the surreal humor short film WE NEED IT YESTERDAY, which premiered at the Malaga Film Festival and won awards at several national and international festivals.

Celia Galán is currently developing the script for the science fiction feature film TRUE LOVE, selected for the Acció Viver 2019 residency by Dones Visuals. In 2024, she wrote, directed and produced the sci-fi short film GYNOID, which is currently in the film festival circuit.