Maria Valenzuela Rivas

Biography

Maria Valenzuela Rivas is a 21 years old Performing Arts and Cinema student who has directed and wrote "OC-Down, But Not Out" (whose original title is "Tocada y hundida") a short film that has been one of the eight winners of the second edition of the competition CIMA10 (2024), organized by CIMA and Prime Video Spain.

She is a passionate of storytelling who has been honored winning different prizes through years related to writing, such us in the call made by the Reteena Festival in 2022 (Audiovisual Laboratory), in the second edition of ConCurts Jove (award in the Baccalaureate and CF category) in 2021, in the Quantum Poetic Action Awards convened within the framework of Science Needs You...