Film Director // Screenwriter // Singer
Fany de la Chica’s films and documentaries have been selected in around one-hundred film festivals, received ten awards, and have been broadcast in Denmark and Spain. Her film, Something to Believe in, was presented at the Academy, won an Emmy at the College Television Awards and was selected at Oscar-qualifying festivals: Cinequest, Nashville Film Festival, and Telluride. De la Chica’s short film, The Looking Ceremony, won the NewView award organized by Glamour magazine and her documentary, Round Trip, was shortlisted for the Academy Awards in Spain. Her feature documentary The Visit was selected in more than thirty festivals and won an award at Houston Film Festival and International Human Rights Bogota Film Festival.
Her work has also been published in the magazine Cinewoman, MovieMaker, and at the Hollywood Reporter. She was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus and Torino Film Lab with her project for the feature film Al Alba. She directed commercials for clients like Google, The Outnet, LIFEWTR. She holds an MFA in Directing/Screenwriting at Columbia University.
As a singer, she has released her first music album Dressed for a Sunday, reviewed by Refinery 29 and Remezcla where she mixed flamenco with jazz and pop.