Clara Roquet

About

Clara Roquet is a writer and director from Spain. Her first film as a screenwriter was the SXSW and SIFF award-winner indie film 10.000 KM, directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet, winner of a Goya award, the Gaudí Award for best Screenplay and the Silver Biznaga for Best Screenplay, and nominated for the European Film Awards. She adapted the critically acclaimed novel "This Too Shall Pass" by Milena Busquets for Argentinian director Daniel Burman. Her first project as a director was the short film El Adiós, winner of the Student BAFTA and nominated for the 2016 European Film Awards. El Adiós premiered in the 2015 TIFF, played in Telluride and Clermont-Ferrand, won awards from the DGA and the National Board of Review, and was acquired by HBO. She was also the co-writer of PETRA by Jaime Rosales, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 71th Cannes Film Festival. Clara graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University, where she also taught a lab in screenwriting.