Irene Zoe Alameda

Irene Zoe Alameda is a Spanish writer and filmmaker. Her feature film "La cinta de Álex" (Alex's Strip) won the Best Picture award at the 2020 Winter Film Awards in New York. The movie was considered one of the best "operas prima" of Spanish cinema (Fotogramas). She is also the acclaimed author of the books: "Antrópolis" (2017), "WA. Ultimos Dias de Warla Alkman"(2013), and "Sueños itinerantes" (2004) A writer and filmmaker, she holds a PhD in literature from Columbia University. She previously studied Hispanic philology at Complutense University of Madrid and spent four semesters as Erasmus at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where she was later hired as a lecturer of Spanish. She has worked as a professor and researcher at the University of Bonn, Suffolk University, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the Spanish National Research Council, and at George Washington University.

She is the Founder and CEO of the production company Storylines Projects, since 2008.

She was the director of Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm (Sweden) between 2009 and 2010.

El País op-ed contributor, she also writes for ElCotidiano and Culturamas.In 2012 she moved to the United States, where she currently works as a university professor and as a producer, writer and filmmaker.