Isa Luengo

Guadalajara, 1993

Isa Luengo is a film writer and director. She majored in Fine Arts (UCM), and has a Master’s Degree in Creative Documentary (UAB) and a Master’s Degree in Screenwriting (ESCAC, thanks to a Diversity Grant from Netflix and ESCAC). With Sofia Esteve, she was selected for the 3rd edition of the Catalan Film Academy’s Script Residency with their debut feature film LA FORMA ANIMAL. The project has also participated at Sitges Film Festival’s Fantastic Residency Woman in Fan 2025, and has been selected at Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s AGORA’s Crossroads Coproduction Forum 2025.

She has co-written and co-directed the documentary short film GAPS (Els buits, 2024), awarded at festivals such as Málaga, D’A or Alcances, selected by several others like Fipadoc or Márgenes, and Nominated for the Goya and Gaudí Awards of the Spanish and Catalan Film Academies; and also the narrative short film ETERNAL HAPPINESS (Perpetua felicidad, 2022), candidate for the Goya Awards, selected by festivals such as Leuven International Short Film Festival, and awarded by others like Queercinemad. She’s also co-director of the documentary short film THE INTERIOR CITY (La ciutat interior, 2017), which premiered at IDFA, and was selected by Málaga Film Festival, FICG and Beijing International Short Film Festival, among others.

Recently, she has finished her last narrative short film THE WANDERERS (Los Andares, 2026), co-directed with Sofia Esteve. During its development stage, it was selected for Dones Visuals’ program Acció Curts, and was awarded at Gijón Film Festival’s Semilleru Lab and at Queercinelab 2022.

Isa has co-created La calumnia, an independent research project around queer genealogies in film, in which she has organized workshops and teaches classes at different institutions, including the Spanish Cinemathèque and the Master's Degree in Gender Studies and Communication at the UAB.