Tamara García Iglesias

Fantasy Panorama

After studying Social Anthropology at the University of the Basque Country and Film Direction in Buenos Aires, she expanded this training, self-taught and for three years, at the Arteleku Art Center in San Sebastián. She spent five years as director of the Aguilar de Campoo International Short Film Festival and four years as a programmer at the MAPA Collective associated with Arteleku. In the last decade she has combined curatorial works: “Mujeres/Máquinas/Fábricas”, 2022, and 2023, “Alicia D’Amico, una identidad en fuga” (2022, Museo Nacional Parque de la Memoria), “Imágenes secuenciadas” (Artegunea Kutxa Fundazioa, 2021), “Marcar. Signar. Notar” (Galeria Cibrián, San Sebastián, 2020), “Mitominas. Narcisa Hirsch” (C.C. Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2016), “Mujeres sin Ley” (Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, 2016), “This is Just To Say” (MACBA, Buenos Aires, 2014-2016) with the production cinematographic of the films Foremost by Night (2023) shown at the Giornate degli Autori of the Venice Film Festival and that won the FIPRESCI Award from SEMINCI, the Award for Best Director at the Cinespaña Festival in Toulouse and the Award for Best Nouvelle Vagues Film from the La-Roche-sur-Yon Festival, The Moaning (2020), Euria ari du aspaldi ez bezala (2019) and Plata o mierda (NetWorking Zinebi 2022).
She has directed the experimental film El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (2021), about the Argentine artist Alicia D’Amico; Ferreyra, a Film Concrete (together with Xabier Erkizia, 2021) about the French-Argentine artist Beatriz Ferreyra; the fiction film Paraíso, cerca (2021) and Zarata, first Non-Fiction feature film and winner of the Youth Prize in the Official Section ZINEBI 2023, further away in time, in 2010, she directed two documentary series for TVE2, Mover montañas and La luz and El misterio de las catedrales.