ABOUT
MALCRIADA
Malcriada Films was born in late 2025 from a rebellious need to bring stories from the margins into the cultural conversation. Stories carried by people whose voices, bodies, memories and ways of seeing the world are often pushed aside, softened or translated by others. At Malcriada, we are interested in films that speak from their own place, with their own images, contradictions, wounds and beauty.
Our work is rooted in radical vulnerability, formal risk and emotional precision. We believe that how a film is made matters as much as the film itself. This means working with communities in a non-extractive way, designing each production from a place of care, transparency and trust, and understanding that each project asks for its own language, its own rhythm and its own way of being protected.
Malcriada exists to defend the creative integrity of singular films while understanding that cinema also needs structure, strategy and circulation. We believe authorial projects can be uncompromising and still find audiences, partners, festivals, markets and commercial routes that allow them to exist beyond development.
Based in El Raval, one of Barcelona’s most multicultural neighborhoods, Malcriada is shaped by the sensory overload, queer energy and political friction of its neighboorhood. From here, we work between Catalonia, Latin America and Europe, building an international slate of films that are intimate, ambitious and formally ambitious.
Our Team
ANDRé robert
Founder & Creative Director
André Robert is a Costa Rican-Swiss filmmaker, producer and founder of Malcriada Films.
He studied Film & TV Production at Loyola Marymount University in Los Ángeles before returning to Costa Rica, where he developed his voice across documentary, fiction and commissioned audiovisual work. His early short films screened at international festivals including the Festival de Málaga, CurtaCinema Rio de Janeiro, Shnit Shortfilmfestival and the Costa Rica International Film Festival.
Since moving to Barcelona in 2020, André has completed two master’s degrees at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Creative Documentary and Project Management. His debut feature documentary, Piel Violenta, is a Swedish-Swiss-Spanish co-production developed through Eurodoc and co-produced with Sisyfos Film Production, Dynamic Frame and Malcriada Films.
His work explores family memory, queerness, masculinity, grief, ecological tension and the relationship between bodies and territory. As a producer, he has participated in international industry spaces including Eurodoc, IDFA Academy, Ji.hlava New Visions Forum, DocsBarcelona Talents and Emerging Producers.
ANDRÉS ALEMANY
Producer & Sustainability Officer
Andrés Alemany is an Chilean audiovisual producer based in Barcelona, working across film production, financing, festival organization, cultural management and production strategy.
With a background in Business, Management and Economics from the Universidad de Chile, a Sustainable Development programme in SRH Berlin and a Master’s in Audiovisual Production and Film Business at ESCAC, he brings together production, finance, strategy and organizational thinking.
His experience spans festival production, production logistics, digital strategy, budgeting and executive production. He has worked as Head of Production for BASS ESCAC, Festival Producer and Programmer at EMIFF, and has held production roles across short films, feature films and cultural projects, including Imágenes a la deriva,Cruising Lesbiana, La Merkateka, Solo por esta noche, Sean Jóvenes, Alergia, Obscura, Dead Lesbian, The Choice and Els Mals Noms.
At Malcriada Films, Andrés supports financing strategy, company organization, budgeting, funding applications, market preparation, internal systems and production planning. His role strengthens Malcriada’s capacity to grow as a structured, sustainable and internationally oriented production company.
COLLABORATORS
ALBA BRESOLÍ ALIBERCH
Director / Programmer
Alba Bresolí Aliberch is a Catalan filmmaker and programmer born in Muntanyola, Osona, in 1995.
Raised in a rural and isolated environment, her work is deeply connected to territory, bodies, memory, care, animal presence and forms of resistance outside urban centres. She studied Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Media & Arts at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Master’s in Creative Documentary at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she received the BSM-UPF Talent scholarship.
Her practice moves between documentary, fiction and hybrid cinema, with a sensitive attention to the fragile relationship between human and non-human life. Her short film El dia que volaron la montaña was nominated for Best Short Film at the Gaudí Awards, and El bon auguri has circulated widely through festivals including D’A Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Reykjavík International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, FIPADOC, Vienna Shorts, Leiden Shorts and Trento Film Festival.
She is the writer and director of Cossos al Buit, her first feature film, co-produced by Fractal Films and Malcriada Films. Rooted in a personal childhood memory, the project opens into a story about rural life, childhood, grief, the meat industry and the violence hidden beneath everyday systems.
MARIA BESORA BARTI
Director / Editor
Maria Besora Barti is a Catalan filmmaker, writer and editor whose work moves between creative documentary, ethnographic sensitivity and cinematic experimentation.
A graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universitat de Barcelona, she began her trajectory in cinematic writing, directing and editing with the creative documentary Animal Salvatge, developed with the mentorship of Diana Toucedo and Virginia García del Pino at ESCAC.
Her work has been selected and awarded in festivals and industry spaces including IDFA, D’A, FIPADOC, DocsBarcelona, Alcances, the Gaudí Awards and the Student Academy Awards. Together with Aurora Vélez, she won the Higia Award with the short documentary Peu Pla, an early collaboration exploring the encounter between science and cinema.
She is also co-director, together with Pep Garrido, and editor of the documentary short Dol i fa sol, winner at festivals including In-Edit Barcelona, FICVI and FICdÀ, and nominated for the Gaudí Awards.
Maria is the director and writer of Matriu, a short creative documentary produced by Malcriada Films. The film explores vulvovaginal pain, pelvic floor therapy, bodily knowledge, agency and the possibility of pleasure through a careful and hybrid documentary language.
KEN WARDROP
Director / Exec Producer
Ken Wardrop is one of Ireland’s most distinctive documentary filmmakers, known for a warm, intimate and deeply human way of looking at people and the emotional structures that shape their lives.
A graduate of the National Film School of Ireland, Ken first gained international attention with a series of short documentaries that travelled widely across festivals. His film Undressing My Mother won the European Film Academy Award for Best Short Film, while other shorts including Ouch!, Scoring and Farewell Packets of Ten screened at festivals such as Sundance and Clermont-Ferrand.
His debut feature documentary, His & Hers, premiered at Sundance, where it received the World Cinema Cinematography Award, and is regarded as a landmark work in contemporary Irish documentary. He went on to direct Mom & Me, which premiered at Telluride and won Best Documentary at the Cleveland International Film Festival and an IFTA Award in Ireland; Making the Grade, which screened at SXSW; and So This Is Christmas, presented at Hot Docs in 2024.
Alongside his work as a director, Ken has built a strong international profile as a producer, working across documentary and fiction with broadcasters, sales agents, festivals and European funding structures. His producing credits include Million Dollar Pigeons, Sanatorium, Kachalka and the fiction feature Kissing Candice.
Now based in Barcelona, Ken is collaborating with Malcriada Films on the development of new projects and supporting selected titles from the company’s slate as an executive producer. His experience in creative documentary, international financing and European co-production strengthens Malcriada’s commitment to intimate, formally sensitive cinema with international reach.
KATHARINA NUTTALL
Film Composer
Katharina Nuttall is a Norwegian-British conceptual artist and film composer whose work inhabits the intersection of cinematic storytelling, sound art, and experimental music practice.
Based in Stockholm and raised between Norway and the United Kingdom, she has developed a distinctive musical language shaped by voice, acoustic instrumentation, and electronic manipulation.
Her compositions are marked by a strong dramaturgical sensibility and an uncompromising artistic voice, often moving seamlessly between fragile intimacy and expansive sonic landscapes. Nuttall’s scores have received international recognition through films and television productions such as The King, Gudrun, Woman on the Roof, and Filmen om Siw, earning her multiple awards and nominations including the Camille Awards — The European Film Composers Award.
Educated at SKH and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where she completed Master’s degrees in Sound Art and Film Music Composition, Nuttall approaches film scoring as an extension of a broader conceptual art practice. Her work has been presented at international festivals including Tribeca, Berlinale and she collaborates widely with filmmakers and visual artists across Europe.
Alongside her work for screen, she has released four critically recognized solo albums and produced numerous recordings for other artists. Her ongoing projects continue to explore the narrative power of sound in contemporary cinema, including the upcoming Netflix production Trustor (2026), The Phantom Pain of Rojava (2026) and Violent Skin (2027).
MARÍA JOSÉ MERINO
Director / Writer
María José Merino is a Costa Rican director and writer working between creative documentary, social cinema and hybrid approaches to reality. Her work is rooted in community, territory, gender, ecology and the political force of oral and collective memory.
She holds a Master’s in Creative Documentary from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and a degree in Collective Communication Sciences from the University of Costa Rica. Her experience moves between authorial film projects and socially engaged audiovisual work for organizations including People in Need Latin America, UNHCR Central America, UNDP Central America and CONAPDIS, as well as documentary projects developed with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica.
Her first feature documentary, Susurran las raíces, is a Costa Rica–Brazil creative documentary in development set in Talamanca, Costa Rica. The project follows a network of Cabécar women organized around care, land, gender violence and the intelligence of the forest. It has received support from FAUNO, CRFIC, COOFILM, Bolivia Lab, ACAMPADOC and other regional and international development spaces.
Her previous works include Primero, winner of Costa Rica’s national short film production fund; the documentary series Exiliados; Rodrigo y el tren; and Un muro. She has also participated in international training and industry spaces including COOFILM, Bolivia Lab, ACAMPADOC, Doc Amazonie Caraïbe and Green Film Lab.
At Malcriada, María José collaborates as the writer of El eco de la isla, bringing her gaze shaped by ecology, memory, political imagination and a deep understanding of how documentary can move between reality, myth and territory.
NICOLás tabilo
Director / Editor
Nicolás Tabilo is a Chilean filmmaker and editor based in Barcelona. His work moves between documentary, fiction and experimental forms, exploring memory, labour, migration, queer identity and the fragile spaces where personal history becomes collective cinema.
He studied Film & Television at the University of Chile and completed the Master’s in Creative Documentary at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he received a scholarship as an emerging talent. His practice is shaped by editing, cinematography and hybrid documentary processes, bringing together observational realism, archive, performance and poetic reconstruction.
His films and collaborations have circulated through international festivals and industry spaces including Jeonju International Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, RIDM Montreal, Festival dei Popoli, IFFR Rotterdam, FICValdivia, IDFAcademy, Sheffield DocFest MeetMarket, Chiledoc Conecta, CPH–Silbersalz and Venice Production Bridge.
He is the director, writer and producer of Imágenes a la deriva, his first feature documentary, a Chile–Spain creative documentary co-produced by TABILOs and Malcriada. The film moves between archive, family memory, migration, queer experience and the labour of his mother’s final grape harvest, transforming intimate fragments into a collaborative and formally daring cinematic process.
BRIGITTA BACSKAI
Film Editor
"I strongly believe in the healing and educational power of storytelling. Whether it be a fictional drama, an entertaining comedy, a to-the-bone documentary, or a playful animation, all those stories share valuable knowledge of how we should navigate life."
Brigitta Bacskai is a Hungarian film editor based in Spain, with more than 20 years of experience across documentary, animation and fiction. She studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, the Norwegian Film School and Eötvös Loránd University.
Her work has received international recognition: the feature film Free Entry, which she edited, won the Gamechanger Award at SXSW; the animated short Balcony received the Grand Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival; and the feature documentary Too Close received numerous awards, including the Young Europeans Award at FIPA Doc.
Most recently, Brigitta edited André Robert’s debut feature documentary Violent Skin. She is an ongoing creative collaborator of Malcriada Films, working closely with the company on the development and editing of its documentary projects.
Alongside her editing practice, Brigitta teaches both at university level and through professional film courses.