AINA CLOTET

Aina Clotet’s biography I was born in Barcelona in 1982 into a family with an extensive background in science. My father is a medical researcher who has dedicated his life to HIV and, recently, to COVID-19. By chance, when I was twelve years old, I accompanied him to an interview he was set to do on television, and they ended up casting me for a Catalan TV series that was very successful. Starting then, I combined my early acting career with school. The motivation I felt made me a very good student, and I obtained a scholarship to study Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. I graduated in order to complement my acting training and also with the intention of one day getting to direct my own stories. I speak Catalan, Spanish, English and French, and, as an actress, I have traveled to and lived in different cities all around the world. I have been fortunate enough to work with and learn from the gaze of great directors such as Hazanavicius, Neil Labute, Bayona, Jorge Coira, Patricia Ferreira, and Judith Colell, to name a few, as well as having opportunities to confront and play complex female characters that have made me grow as a person. I have had the honor to won numerous awards and nominations, most notably: two Biznaga de Plata Awards at the Malaga Film Festival for Best Actress for La filla d'algú and Wild Kids, and a Sant Jordi Award for the Critics Choice as the Best Spanish Actress for Elisa K, which also won the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. With the feature 53 Days of Winter I was recognized with two Awards for Best Actress at the Spanish Film Festival in Toulouse. I have been nominated nine times for the Gaudí Film Awards in Spain, and the film Traces of Sandalwood, in which I play one of the leading roles, won the Gaudí Award for Best Film and also the Audience Award at the Montreal International Film Festival. When I graduated, I co-wrote the TV movie Positius for Catalan television about the social stigma of women with HIV, which Judith Colell directed, and it was nominated for Best TV Movie at the Gaudí Awards. For twenty years, my acting career has kept me very busy, and it has not been until the last four years, when I had two children, that I have slowed down my acting rhythm and have found the strength and space to start creating and directing my own stories once again, despite the complexities of motherhood. When I was 7 months pregnant, I wrote and directed the short film Tiger, and I wrote, along with Carla Simón and Valentina Viso, the short film Después También last year, produced by Avalon and directed by Carla Simón herself. Both short films were invited to great international festivals and were nominated for Best Short Film at the Gaudí Awards. I’m currently developing my first feature, which I’m presenting at Torino Film Lab and I’m also creating a TV series with a great team, for which we’re currently in talks with various platforms. As an actress, I’ve just finished shooting Hierro, Season 2, for Arte France and Movistar+. Because of my parents’ work, I have grown up with strong ties to social causes, and I consistently collaborate in fundraisings and all kinds of campaigns that help raise funds for scientific research, the right to education and any other campaign that I believe, as an actress, I can contribute to creating visibility for. I fervently believe that, if we are able, we should give back to society what it’s given to us. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1216145/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1