Talent Guide

Camila Zavala

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2019, Grants and Awards 2019, Producing Lab 2019

Bio

Camila Zavala is a Peruvian writer and producer based in Los Angeles with an MFA from Columbia University. Camila’s work spans a range of fiction, TV, branded content and theatre plays. As a producer she has been honored to win several awards and has been selected to screen at festivals such as Tribeca Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest and Telluride Film Festival. Her last film The Catch, which she wrote and produced, received the Katherina Otto-Bernstein Production Grant and the Bertha Tamayo Grant during the production stage and was awarded the Richard Brick Fund for special distinction in producing.

Current Project

Malpelo

Logline

A solitary freediver, is recruited by someone from her past to take the treacherous journey to Malpelo, a remote island in Colombia, to investigate the troubling disappearance of hammerhead sharks.