Biography
Ana de Quadras (Barcelona, 1973) is a filmmaker and documentary-maker with over 25 years of experience in cinema, art and visual culture. She holds a BA in Fine Arts (specialising in Image) from the Universitat de Barcelona and an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York, training that laid the foundations of her interest in directing, post-production and editing.
Throughout her career she has combined directing with screenwriting and post-production across all her projects. She is a founding partner of AdQStudio, her own production company, through which she has developed documentaries, science communication pieces, reportage and advertising. She is also co-founder of MobulaFlyFilms, a production company specialising in creative drone projects.
Among her most recent work is the documentary Material sensible, directed, written and edited by her, available on Filmin and CaixaForum+, produced in collaboration with the Fundació Photographic Social Vision. For this same foundation she has directed numerous projects, including World Press Photo Exhibition 2021 and 2022 (Filmin), 36 Fotògrafs Confinats, Gente Genial, DocField and Isabel Azcárate, as well as the annual pieces for the World Press Photo exhibition at the CCCB since 2016.
En el ámbito de la divulgación científica destaca su trabajo para la FIDMAG Research Foundation con Neuroconnecta't amb el Futur, ganador del primer premio de la Beca Joan Oró 2023. Ha dirigido producciones para la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya en proyectos financiados por la Comissió Europea: ACT. Act on Gender (Horizon 2020), GENPORT (presentado al Parlamento Europeo) y Mastering Gender in Research.
Her ties to art institutions include productions for the Fundació Antoni Tàpies (the exhibitions Allora & Calzadilla and Harun Farocki. Empathy, curated by Carles Guerra) and the project Àlbum Tosquelles, a visual essay by Carles Guerra for the Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona. Her social documentaries include Meninos da favela (Rio de Janeiro, Fundació Promenor) and Amapola y los Aviones (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Auditori ONCE). In advertising she has directed campaigns for Aquilea, Caixa Enginyers and Porsche.
Great-niece of Delmiro de Caralt and Pilar de Quadras, pioneers of Catalan amateur cinema in the 1920s, she directs and writes Amants Amateur (Amateur Lovers), a documentary selected at DocsBarcelona 2026 and produced by Paloma Zapata for La Fábrica Naranja. Drawing on exclusive access to the previously unseen family archive, the film tells the story of their filmed romance and its legacy.