Gala Hernández (Murcia, Spain, 1993). Filmmaker and researcher.

She graduated in Filmmaking in ESCAC (Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia – University of Barcelona). The short film in 35mm Still Life is her graduation project. She did a Master in Contemporary Cinema and Audiovisuals Studies in University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and the International Master in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies (IMACS) at Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle University and University of Nanterre – Paris X.

She’s currently a PhD Candidate in cinema at Paris VIII – Vincennes Saint-Denis University, working on a research-creation projet about “desktop films”, films recycling amateur online audiovisual content. The project will generate a written thesis and some films and video installations.

Interested in edition, she has worked as a video editor in PlayGround Magazine and participated in an international edition workshop in the EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba). She has been Festivals Coordinator at the international sales agent Luxbox Films.

She has published poems in some online magazines, fanzines and a poetry plaquette in paper with the publisher Ad Minimum: Amnesia of the birds (2016).