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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paula Alvarez Vaccaro is an award winning producer, scriptwriter, journalist, and educator with more than twenty five years of experience working in film, TV, online, radio, and printed media in various languages and three continents. She received the prestigious Chevening Scholarship Award and holds an MA in Media from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Some of her recent career highlights include winning at Venice Film Festival twice: in 2020 as a producer and writer of Listen, the most awarded film at the festival, winner of two Lions (Special Jury and Lion of the Future), and in 2016 the Young Golden Lion for her production On the Milky Road, directed by Emir Kusturica.
Before founding her current company, Pinball London, in 2009, she had worked in films, series and shorts production for international companies and broadcasters such as BBC, TVE, MTV, Channel 4, and ARTE. Strongly interested in knowledge transfer and power sharing strategies, she collaborates within the industry as a mentor, speaker, educator, and consultant.
She was an Emmy Juror between 2009 and 2014, an Official Jury at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2017; a Jury at Focal Awards for Archive Excellency 2010-2018, and a BIFA juror since 2018. She is a member of BAFTA and the European Film Academy, a board member of the European Producers Club, and a full member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.
