Alice Waddington

Alice Waddington (born July 31, 1990) is a Spanish film director, writer, photographer and costume designer[1][2] having developed most of her work in the field of modern cinema.

[4] During the 1990s, Bilbao was experiencing significant changes and facing various socio-economic challenges, such as terrorism[5] and a heroin crisis,[6] an awareness Alice credits with her first contacts with the abstract ideas of horror.

[7] At 18, she studied advertising at UPV-EHU University where she started capturing promotion stills and directing fashion films as a photographer and assistant of photography for the Spanish editions of Harper's Bazaar, Neo2[8] and others.

In 2014, with the help of Mexican executive producer Yadira Ávalos, Waddington took a year off advertising agency work to write and direct a short movie.

She found sponsors[10] to help her produce her first narrative 11-minute film,[11] Disco Inferno (2015), which received nominations in 63 international film festivals including genre fan favorites such as Palm Springs,[12] Fantasia, Sitges (Noves Visions Short award[13]) or Fantastic Fest, which first awarded her as Best Director in her category, and second best feature project of the Fantastic Market for her movie Paradise Hills.

Waddington has pointed out in interviews that after Paradise Hills she desires to direct biopics, dark comedies, socially metaphorical fantastic horror about minorities[17] and terror stories that have taken place.

[20] In October 2022, [21] Waddington premiered her first episode of television, in which she personally cast Álvaro Morte and Mina El-Hammani, co-written with Spanish legacy writer Rocío Martínez Llano.