Fany de la Chica is an award-winning filmmaker with an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from Columbia University in New York City. Her films have been selected for over a hundred international festivals, where they won ten awards, and have been broadcast in Denmark and Spain. Her short film Algo en lo que creer (Something to Believe In) was presented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, won an Emmy at the College Television Awards and participated in film festivals such as Telluride, Málaga and Nashville. With her short film El miramiento (The Looking Ceremony), Fany won Glamour USA’s NewView Award, and her documentary Viaje de ida y vuelta was shortlisted for the Goya Awards of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Fany was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus and her script Al alba has participated in Torino Film Lab Next and Reykjavík Film Lab and won the Alice Guy award of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. Fany was also selected for the Series Lab of the SGAE Foundation in Spain and won the Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation with her television series Fuego y veneno. Her latest short film, Last Night at Paris Blues, shot in Harlem, premiered at the Seville European Film Festival and was screened at the HollyShorts and Reykjavík film festivals, among others.

Al alba — Triana is a Spanish jazz singer based in New York. A bit of an alcoholic and quite the folkie, Triana scrapes by while performing at a legendary club in Harlem. Halfway through recording her first album and in the midst of a traumatic love breakup, Triana is forced to leave the big city when her grandmother is about to die. The matriarch Mama Lola, a flamenco singer and her biggest supporter in the family, wants Triana to carry on the tradition after her death and preserve the family heritage: a flamenco bar surrounded by olive trees. The return to her village in the mountains forces Triana to face her difficult relationship with her mother and to embark on an inner journey through music.