Maria Valenzuela Rivas

Maria Valenzuela Rivas is a 21 years old Performing Arts and Cinema student who has directed and wrote "OC-Down, But Not Out" (whose original title is "Tocada y hundida") a short film that has been one of the eight winners of the second edition of the competition CIMA10 (2024), organized by CIMA and Prime Video Spain. She is a passionate of storytelling who has been honored winning different prizes through years related to writing, such us in the call made by the Reteena Festival in 2022 (Audiovisual Laboratory), in the second edition of ConCurts Jove (award in the Baccalaureate and CF category) in 2021, in the Quantum Poetic Action Awards convened within the framework of Science Needs You events (first prize) in 2019, in the XIV edition of the educational experiences award Josep Pallach (short story award) in 2018 and in the micro-story contest promoted by the ByL·InEdu Association (award in the children's category by jury decision) in 2015, among others. She also was selected to g...