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Daniela Fejerman is a screenwriter, a film and television director, and a playwright. She was born in Argentina but moved to Spain with her family as a child. With a degree in Psychology, she began her career in theater, training in Dramatic Art and Dramaturgy. She began her career as a screenwriter in television and has since written numerous television series.

Daniela has written and directed the feature films A mi madre le gustan las mujeres (2002, nominated for three Goya Awards), Semen, una historia de amor (2005), 7 minutos (2009), La adopción (2015, Best Director Award at the International Catalan Film Festival and  nominated for four Gaudí Awards), Mamá no enredes (2022), and Alguien que cuide de mí (2023, co-written and co-directed with the writer Elvira Lindo). She has also written scripts for other directors, such as Patricia Ferreira (Sé quién eres, 2000) or Emilio Martínez-Lázaro (La montaña rusa, 2012), and she has directed television series and miniseries (El síndrome de Ulises, Como alas al viento, La Baronesa).

Daniela teaches screenwriting at the Madrid Film and Audiovisual School (ECAM), in the Master in Screenwriting and Dramaturgy of the Madrid Autonomous University, in the Master in Screenwriting of Mediapro Studio-Madrid Complutense University, and in the Master in Screenwriting for Film and Television of the Carlos III University of Madrid. She is a script mentor in the Ibero-American Audiovisual Projects Development Course, in DAMA-Netflix’s Cambio de Plano, and in CIMA Impulsa.

Daniela is the founder of CIMA (Spanish Association of Women Filmmakers) and a member of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.