Natalia Cabral (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and
Oriol Estrada (Capellades, Catalonia, Spain) are award-winning filmmakers. Their work lives on the borderlines of fiction and nonfiction. Natalia and Oriol graduated from the prestigious EICT V Cuban Film School. In 2012, they founded Faula Films to provide a creative platform for the development and co-production of independent filmmaking in the Caribbean.

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Their debut documentary film, You and Me (2014), premiered at Visions du Réel. It won several awards at Cartagena, Trinidad & Tobago, Havana, Márgenes, Austin, and Santo Domingo Film Festivals. Their second documentary film, Site of Sites (2016), received the support of DOCTV Latinoamérica. The film premiered at IDFA and screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It was an official selection at Biarritz, Cartagena, and Lima film festivals. The film was listed as one of the 25 best Latin American films of 2017 by Cinema Tropical.
Miriam Lies (2018) is the couple’s first fiction feature film. It was produced with the support of the Ibermedia program and the Tribeca Film Institute’s Latin America Fund. The film premiered in the official competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. There, it obtained a special mention from the jury. Later, it was awarded the Golden Colon for Best Film at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. Other awards include the ALMA Award for Best Spanish Film Script at the Gijón International Film Festival, Best Director at the Punta del Este Festival, and the SFCC Award from the French Critics at Cinélatino Toulouse.
Miriam Lies is considered among the most notable films of Latin American cinema. It is particularly outstanding within the showcase of Dominican Republic cinema. It won Best Film at the ADOCINE Awards and the ADOPRESCI Critics’ Award.
A Film About Couples (2021) screened at the Locarno, Rome, Miami, Hamburg, and Cartagena International Film Festivals. It won the best film award from the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma. It also received a special mention from the jury at the Biarritz Latin American Film Festival. Other awards include the Best Spanish Film and Best Director at the Gijón International Film Festival.