Adriana Paramo Perez

Adriana Páramo was born in Galicia, Spain (1985). She is a filmmaker with expertise in the areas of producing and directing. At Royal Holloway she is doing a practice based PhD exploring her documentary practice with a focus on gender and performance.

She holds a degree in Communications from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and a Mastrers degree in filmmaking from the London Film School.

As a director she has two internationally awarded short films. Galicia. Portobello Road (2014) and Stone Island (2010) starring Goya winner Nerea Barros and that went on to become the first fiction short in Galicia to have audiodescription for the blind.

She counts with more than 5 years experience in production working for corporate, branded and indie films having filmed in countries such as Morocco, Italy or Poland.

She is also the co-founder of the Galician Film Forum (2015) an organisation that exhibits films from Galicia in the UK and that recently counts with funding from the Spanish Embassy and A Banca bank.

I am doing a practice based PhD exploring documentary practice and gender. My first year’s project ‘The Stronger Experiment’ exploring how patriarchal structures affect the characters seen on the screen has been presented as a 4 video channel installation at the Los Angeles Film & Video Poetry Symposium (2020). I am now working on my thesis project exploring how to subvert the social construct of the pregnant experience on the screen.