Raquel Choy
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Raquel Choy is a Cinema and TV Director and Screenwriter and, moreover, Director of the Cinema School "Cine en Acción" and of the Producer Company "Cinenaccion Producciones".
She holds a BA in Publicity and Public Relations from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, she obtained a Diploma in Directing and Screenwriting from Academia Quincedeoctubre, where she led the short film "Santa Maria" recorded in 16mm, and a Diploma in Camera and Photography Direction from IDEP.
In 2016 she finished her feature film "The Invasion of the Symbiotic Pigs", of which she was the director, screenwriter and producer, and which was featured in the Muestra de Cine Inédite de Jaén, in the festivals B-Retina and Horrorvision of Barcelona and in the Fantastic Gore Festival of Amposta, Tarragona. Previously, she was the Assistant Director in the film "Memories of Alicia" presented in the Film Festival of Moscow in 2012.
Among her short films we mention that in 2017 she carried out the direction, screenwriting and production of "X", featured in the Sitges Film Festival 2017 - Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Cataluña, and which has been selected and has achieved several awards in a number of international and national festivals: Winner of an Award of Excellence at the Best Shorts Competition 2017, Winner of a Gold Award at the Spotlight Horror Film Awards 2017, Best Horror Short in Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards 2017, Winner of an Award of Excellence at the One-Reeler Short Film Competition 2017, Official Selection at the Aurora: Internacional Horror Film Festival from Mexico 2018, Winner of two Awards of Excellence (for Short Film and Women Filmmakers) at the Festival Accolade Global Film Competition 2018, Winner of the Best Foreign Short in the California International Shorts Festival Spring 2018, Award of Best Actor in the 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest, a Platinum Award in the International Independent Film Awards summer 2018 in California, Official Selection at Liverpool Film Festival 2018, Official Selection at Incortum Festival in Ibiza 2018 (Sapin), Screening at the XXX Marató de Cinema Fantàstic i de Terror de Sants (Barcelona), Official Selection at DarkVeins Horror Fest 2018, Official Selection at Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts 2018, Official Selection at London Lift-Off Film Festival Online 2018, Finalist at Festival Canada Shorts 2018, Official Selection at California Women's Film Festival 2019, Official Selection at ALIE Festival Madrid 2019 and Offical Selection in the Caorle Independent Film Festival 2019, Official Selection in Cinema Grand Prix, Indonesia 2019, Award of Merit in the Global Shorts Festival 2019, Official Selection in Dumbo Film Festival 2019, Semi-Finalist in the Hyperwave Film Awards Spring 2019, Official Selection in That Film Festival - Cannes 2019, Finalist in One-Reeler Short Film 2019, Los Angeles 2019, Official Selection in Santiago Independent Film Awards 2019, an Award of Excellence in Vegas Movie Awards, Official Selection in Bucharest ShortCut CineFest 2019, Winner in the European Screen Awards 2019, Offcial Selection in ApuliaWebFest 2020, Official Selection in NIFF London - New Indie Film Festival of London 2020 and Official Selection in Toronto Short Film TV Channel Festival 2020.
Other outstanding short film projects are "Conspiración (Conspiration)" and "La Habitación Blanca (the White Room)"; the latter was presented in the Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Sitges 2008.
Focusing on her role as a screenwriter, she developed the original idea, the bible, the pilot's screenplay and the play list of the plots of the TV Series "Ánima", sold to Cuarzo Producciones, S.L. (at present she is the owner of its exploitation rights again) and the script of the short film "Bajo la Tierra".
She has also been the screenwriter and executive producer of the short film "Entrañas" by Joan Manel Moran which is now in post-production. Currently she is writing the script of the feature movie "Empatía" although, currently she focuses her work on the bible of the TV series "Mythos" whose first script of the pilot chapter has been Semi-Finalist in the Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2019, Winner of the Silver Prize of the Festival Europe Screen Awards 2019, an Award of Prestige in Vegas Movie Awards 2020 and Best Thriller in Los Angeles Film and Script Festival 2020.
She holds a BA in Publicity and Public Relations from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, she obtained a Diploma in Directing and Screenwriting from Academia Quincedeoctubre, where she led the short film "Santa Maria" recorded in 16mm, and a Diploma in Camera and Photography Direction from IDEP.
In 2016 she finished her feature film "The Invasion of the Symbiotic Pigs", of which she was the director, screenwriter and producer, and which was featured in the Muestra de Cine Inédite de Jaén, in the festivals B-Retina and Horrorvision of Barcelona and in the Fantastic Gore Festival of Amposta, Tarragona. Previously, she was the Assistant Director in the film "Memories of Alicia" presented in the Film Festival of Moscow in 2012.
Among her short films we mention that in 2017 she carried out the direction, screenwriting and production of "X", featured in the Sitges Film Festival 2017 - Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Cataluña, and which has been selected and has achieved several awards in a number of international and national festivals: Winner of an Award of Excellence at the Best Shorts Competition 2017, Winner of a Gold Award at the Spotlight Horror Film Awards 2017, Best Horror Short in Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards 2017, Winner of an Award of Excellence at the One-Reeler Short Film Competition 2017, Official Selection at the Aurora: Internacional Horror Film Festival from Mexico 2018, Winner of two Awards of Excellence (for Short Film and Women Filmmakers) at the Festival Accolade Global Film Competition 2018, Winner of the Best Foreign Short in the California International Shorts Festival Spring 2018, Award of Best Actor in the 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest, a Platinum Award in the International Independent Film Awards summer 2018 in California, Official Selection at Liverpool Film Festival 2018, Official Selection at Incortum Festival in Ibiza 2018 (Sapin), Screening at the XXX Marató de Cinema Fantàstic i de Terror de Sants (Barcelona), Official Selection at DarkVeins Horror Fest 2018, Official Selection at Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts 2018, Official Selection at London Lift-Off Film Festival Online 2018, Finalist at Festival Canada Shorts 2018, Official Selection at California Women's Film Festival 2019, Official Selection at ALIE Festival Madrid 2019 and Offical Selection in the Caorle Independent Film Festival 2019, Official Selection in Cinema Grand Prix, Indonesia 2019, Award of Merit in the Global Shorts Festival 2019, Official Selection in Dumbo Film Festival 2019, Semi-Finalist in the Hyperwave Film Awards Spring 2019, Official Selection in That Film Festival - Cannes 2019, Finalist in One-Reeler Short Film 2019, Los Angeles 2019, Official Selection in Santiago Independent Film Awards 2019, an Award of Excellence in Vegas Movie Awards, Official Selection in Bucharest ShortCut CineFest 2019, Winner in the European Screen Awards 2019, Offcial Selection in ApuliaWebFest 2020, Official Selection in NIFF London - New Indie Film Festival of London 2020 and Official Selection in Toronto Short Film TV Channel Festival 2020.
Other outstanding short film projects are "Conspiración (Conspiration)" and "La Habitación Blanca (the White Room)"; the latter was presented in the Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Sitges 2008.
Focusing on her role as a screenwriter, she developed the original idea, the bible, the pilot's screenplay and the play list of the plots of the TV Series "Ánima", sold to Cuarzo Producciones, S.L. (at present she is the owner of its exploitation rights again) and the script of the short film "Bajo la Tierra".
She has also been the screenwriter and executive producer of the short film "Entrañas" by Joan Manel Moran which is now in post-production. Currently she is writing the script of the feature movie "Empatía" although, currently she focuses her work on the bible of the TV series "Mythos" whose first script of the pilot chapter has been Semi-Finalist in the Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2019, Winner of the Silver Prize of the Festival Europe Screen Awards 2019, an Award of Prestige in Vegas Movie Awards 2020 and Best Thriller in Los Angeles Film and Script Festival 2020.
