Silvia Venegas was born in Santa Marta, province of Badajoz, in 1982. She is a Spanish director, producer and screenwriter, and a member of the European Film Academy. Throughout her career she has received several recognitions for her work in documentary filmmaking, including a Goya Award in 2014.
After studying History at the University of the Balearic Islands, Journalism at Carlos III University and Audiovisual Communication at Nebrija University, she founded in 2007 the non profit association Noestamosdepaso, created to make socially focused documentaries that address humanitarian crises once political and media attention has faded. In 2010 she founded the production company Making DOC together with Juan Antonio Moreno.
Venegas has specialised in documentaries centred on social awareness. Her most notable works include Kafana Basta ya from 2016, which focuses on the Sahrawi people, Boxing for Freedom from 2015, which follows young Afghan female boxers, Arte por prescripción from 2015, about people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease, and Los hijos de Mama Wata from 2010, which portrays the post war period in Sierra Leone. She has also produced Palabras de Caramelo from 2016, which tells the story of a deaf child in a refugee camp, Walls Si estas paredes hablasen from 2014, centred on an elderly couple living in Budapest, and La vida más allá de la batalla from 2011, which explores the hidden side of the war in Afghanistan.
