Laura Carreira

Laura Carreira was born in 1994 in Porto. She completed her degree in Audiovisual Communication at the António Arroio School of Arts in Lisbon and graduated in Film Directing from the University of Edinburgh. Her first short film, Red Hill (2019), won the New Visions Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2019 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Her short film The Shift premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020 and was nominated for both the European Film Awards and the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. In 2021, it won the New Talent Award at IndieLisboa. In 2022, Laura was named one of the Rising Stars in Scotland by Screen International magazine. Her debut feature, On Falling (2024), premiered in the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival and was selected for the Official Competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where she won the Silver Shell for Best Director. Recently, she won the Best First Feature Award at the BFI London Film Festival. In her work to date, the precariousness of the contemporary labour market and the alienation of its workers are recurring themes.