LAURA CARREIRA
Laura Carreira is a Portuguese filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her first short film Red Hill won the New Visions Award at the 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Short Film award at the 2019 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Her short film THE SHIFT premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020 and was nominated for 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, Scotland by Screen International magazine. Her first feature film, ON FALLING is produced by Sixteen Films and BRO Cinema and counts with the support of the BFI, BBC Films, Screen Scotland, ICA and Goodfellas. It featured in the BFI’s Great 8 Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024,and had its world premiere at TIFF. It featured in the Main Competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where Laura won the Silver Shell Award for Best Director. The film had its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in 2024, where it won the Sutherland Award for Best Debut (the first British film to win the award since 2010). Conic have the distribution rights across the UK and Ireland with a cinema release date set for the 7th March, 2025. It was most recently long-listed at the 2025 BAFTAs for Outstanding Debut. Her second feature film is under development with Sixteen Films and Film4
