Professor Judith Colell from Blanquerna Communication, new president of the Catalan Film Academy

Tuesday, 15 June 2021. The current director of the degree in Audiovisual Communication from Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations-URL, takes over from the production company Isona Passola, at the head of the entity since 2013 and for many years teaching at Blanquerna-URL. Colell just won the Signis award.

The new Board, chaired by Colell, will be made up of the directors Carla Simón, Sílvia Quer and Alba Cros, the actors David Verdaguer, María Molins; the distributor Carlos R. Ríos, the editor Ana Pfaff, the screenwriter Eduardo Sola and the producer Sergi Moreno, also a professor of the degree in Audiovisual Communication and the master in Executive Audiovisual Production. Blanquerna-PROA.

As the ARA newspaper recalls, in addition to being a director, Colell is also a screenwriter and lecturer. In 2011 she was elected vice president of the Spanish Film Academy and in 2017 she joined the board of the Film Academy chaired by Passola. During the campaign, the newspaper points out, Colell "claimed that the Academy had to focus its efforts on enhancing Catalan cinema 'and not complain and whine so much'. Her candidacy was committed to opening the Academy to members and joining the other Catalan audiovisual associations to combat the loss of muscle in cinema".