Biography

Eva Cools is a Belgian-Spanish screenwriter and film director. She graduated in 2007 from Sint-Lukas, Brussels, with a major in Audiovisual Arts.

Her debut feature film CLEO (2019) had its world premiere at the International Film Fest Ghent in the Explore Zone. The international premiere was at Rome Nella Citta, the parallel selection of the prestigious Rome Film Festival where it won 3 awards in Rome for Best Debut Feature Film, the Rising Star Award for Anna Franziska Jäger and the TIMVISION Award. CLEO won 6 awards in total, including the Visser-Neerlandia Award for Best Screenplay at the Film Fest Ghent (2016), the award for Best Director at the Sofia film festival and the Ensor for best soundtrack by Mauro Pawlowski at the Ostend film festival (2021).

CLEO has been selected at 15 international film festivals including: Tallinn Black Nights (EST), Film festival of India (IND), Film festival Sofia (BULG), Film festival Cleveland (USA), Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage (POL), Zlín Film Festival (CZECHIA) and Espoo Cine International film festival (FIN) and festival Women Make Waves (Taiwan). CLEO is produced by Lunanime and distributed by Lumière. The film was supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Screen Brussels, Creative Europe and Sources 2.

In 2020 Eva Cools adapted and directed the mini-series Bathroom Stories. The 15 episodes where launched online on the VRT NU platform. Bathroom Stories is produced by Sputnik media. With her first series she won the Sabam for Culture Award for Best Flemish Director of 2020.

Her four short films: De Puta Madre (2006), El Camino del Deseo (2007), Las Meninas (2012) and Everything comes back (2014) were nominated and awarded at various national and international film festivals, including: Moondance Film Festival (USA), Elche International Film Festival (SPAIN), Firstglance International Film Festival (USA), Great Lakes Film Festival (USA), Cinefiesta Puerto Rico, Film Festival Ghent (BE) and Women's Independent Film Festival in Hollywood (USA) where she won four prizes for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress (Elisa Mouliaá) with her short film Las Meninas.

She has also directed music videos for famed Belgian bands such as Intergalactic Lovers, Mauro Pawlowski, Nightman, The Sophomore Jinx and Arquettes.

Eva Cools is currently working as a screenwriter and director on several feature films and series.
- IMDb mini biography by: Eva Cools