01 — Showreel A selected showcase
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Introduction

Irene Roig Castellanos

I am training as a director while learning, project by project, how to work with a personal point of view and, at the same time, with different teams, rhythms and production methods. I come from Philosophy and have approached cinema from theory but also from shooting, production and archive work. I am interested in continuing to grow through different forms of filmmaking, moving between production, archival practices and personal projects.

Audience Award ABYCINE 2025
Audience Award ABYCINE 2025
02 Filmography

Selected works

Project 01

Canta, xiqueta, canta

Fiction short. Direction & script.

Shot in July 2025 in Oliva, Valencia, in Valencian. An intimate portrait of a girl and her voice in a Mediterranean landscape that seems to speak on its own.

  • Presented in the ESCAC session at D'A Film Festival Barcelona 2026
  • Selected at VALEIFF
Watch the short on Vimeo
Project 02

Catalogo de una ausencia

Documentary short. Direction.

A short film about what remains when someone leaves. An imminent and unspoken separation. An absence catalogued piece by piece.

  • Audience Award — Hecho en Castilla-La Mancha section, ABYCINE 2025
  • Coverage at CMM Media CMM Media
Watch the short on Vimeo
Poster for Montiel, archivo abierto screening
Project 03

Montiel, archivo abierto

Archive documentary. Direction.

An archive documentary based on research and working with materials. A look at Montiel as a living archive — bodies, vestiges and memory.

  • Screening at Cine Zumzeig, Barcelona — "What remains. Bodies and traces of the archive" session, June 3, 2025
03 In post-production

In progress

Projects in editing. Provisional materials.

Preview of Tardes de la ESCAC Pilot — 3 episodes
Project 05

Tardes de la ESCAC

Audiovisual program. Direction.

Direction of the three-episode pilot for the ESCAC Students and Alumni Association, March 2026.

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04 Photography

Behind the camera

Personal photography and commissions.

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05 About me

Irene Roig Castellanos

Graduated in Philosophy — University of Valencia / University of Bologna — and trained in film studies and audiovisual archive work. Currently pursuing the Master's in Cinema and Visual Culture Studies at ESCAC UB.

I have worked in cataloguing and conservation at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, and I participate in audiovisual projects and cultural programming.

My work as a director moves between fiction and documentary, with an attentive gaze on landscape and the everyday.

Cinematic references

A constellation of perspectives

Directors who accompany my way of thinking cinema.

Portrait of Alice Rohrwacher
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Alice Rohrwacher

Portrait of Pedro Almodóvar
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Pedro Almodóvar

Portrait of David Cronenberg
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David Cronenberg

Portrait of Agnès Varda
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Agnès Varda

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