Clara Lopez Rubio
Women Doc Accelerator 2024
Director, writer and film historian from Granada, Spain
Profile photo by Paulus Ponizak
A Journey Through Cinema, Justice, and Activism
Clara López Rubio studied film directing at the Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin (dffb) and completed a master's degree in documentary directing with film director Pepe Danquart.
After graduating, she worked as an assistant producer for directors Fritz Bauman (on the feature film Anansi, 2002), Gonzalo López Gallego (on Sobre el Arcoíris, 2003), Hans Steinbichler (on Hierankl, 2003) and Jo Baier (Stauffenberg, 2004).
She combines writing screenplays for feature films (El Palacio Congelado, 2004, Como Miriam por su casa, 2004, Cuánto puede dura el amor, 2005) with film curatorship for the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid and the German institutions Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kino Arsenal and Zeughaus Kino. Among her various film series are Sueños de Al-Andalus (2007), Cine Imperfecto (2008), Fliegerträume (2010) and Hinter den Gräber (2019).
Hacking Justice, investigative documentary
In parallel with the birth and upbringing of her three children, López Rubio has been closely following the Assange case for nine years and directed the documentary Hacking Justice (first version 2017, updated version 2021) which is broadcast on public television channels WDR, 3Sat, ARD (Germany), Canal Sur and Canal Historia (Spain - under the title Garzón Assange: el juez y el rebelde), RTS (Switzerland) and VRT (Belgium).
The film was released in cinemas in France in November 2021 (distributed by Les Mutins de Pangèe). The impact campaign includes a screening in Geneva at the United Nations, a screening at the French National Assembly as part of the initiative by French parliamentarians to grant political asylum to Julian Assange (2021) and a screening at the Farnese cinema in Rome sponsored by Oscar nominated producer Elda Ferri (2023).
Hacking Justice participates in numerous festivals and receives the following awards: Special Jury Mention at DocsMx (Mexico, 2017), Best Documentary at the International Filmfestival of the Caribbean Sea (Venezuela, 2018), Special Jury Mention at San Antonio del Estero (Argentina, 2018) and Special Jury Mention at ATLANTICDOC (Uruguay, 2021).
Hacking Justice Doc. Q&A Clara Lopez Rubio & Stella Assange
My Story
In 2018 and 2019, López Rubio was part of the Official Jury at the international film festivals FICIP and SEFF (Argentina). In 2022, she participated in the Documentary Campus development program with her feature-length documentary project Amazonas, about Waorani women in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 2023, Amazonas received the Gerd Ruge Stipendium development grant for authors (NRW Stiftung, Germany), received a 1&1 mentoring from CIMA, and participated in the Doklab Navarra program funded by the ICAA and NextGenerationEU (European Union). Now she takes part in Circle Women Doc Accelerator 2024.
She is also a film historian. Her publications include the book Fliegerträume und Spanische Erde on the cinema of the Spanish Civil War (Editorial Schüren, Germany, 2010) and Julian Assange: le combat du siecle pour la liberté dínformer (Les Mutins de Pangèe, 2021) with the participation of the philosopher Noam Chomsky and the United Nations special rapporteur Nils Melzer.
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