Biography

Rebecca Cremona is a Maltese film director. She is the director and co-writer of Simshar, the first Maltese film to be submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Cremona obtained a B.A. in Film and Comparative Literature from the University of Warwick and an M.A. in Broadcast Cinema at the Art Center College of Design. She also studied at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Early in her career, Cremona worked on a number of films shot in Malta, most notably Munich and Agora. In 2009, she directed a short film, Magdalene, which went on to win a Student EMMY and a Directors Guild of America award. In 2014, she directed Simshar, a film which tells the story of the Simshar incident, whereby four persons died in an explosion on a shipping vessel off the coast of Malta.

Simshar was submitted for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, the first ever Maltese film to be submitted for this award. Simshar is widely referred to as the first ever Maltese international feature film.
- IMDb mini biography by: Nevborg