Mar Targarona

Mar Targarona Borras (Barcelona, 1953) started the Fundació Taller de Guionistes (Screenwriter’s Workshop Foundation), a pioneering school in Spain exclusively dedicated to the screenplay writing discipline. Over a thousand students have passed through their classrooms, learning the trade of writing with images.

Targarona studied Dramatic Arts at the Institut del Teatre (Theatre Institute), an education that she expanded on at the National Theater School of Strasburg and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in Los Angeles. She then worked as a playwright as a member of the Dagoll Dagom theater company. In 1985 she began to work in the advertising field.

Ten years later she shot her first feature-length film, Muere mi vida. Since then she has produced TV movies, series and movies, among which a few of the most outstanding are The Orphanage, Julia’s Eyes, both praised by critics and at box offices alike, and XP3D.

Sitges Film Festival