Sara Gallego

Director

Castelló, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

January 1, 1991

Biography

Sara Gallego (Castellón, 1991) lives in Madrid. She studied Audiovisual Communication and in 2016 graduated in Cinematography from ECAM. She is a co-founder of SALEM. After finishing her studies, she began working as a focus puller, gaining experience on set while simultaneously starting her first projects as a director of photography. In 2018, she shot her first feature-length documentary, The Year of Discovery by Luis López Carrasco, which has enjoyed a long run at festivals and cinemas. Her most recent feature films are Killing Crabs (Tourmalet Films) and Counting Sheep (Aquí y Allí Films). She currently works on fiction, advertising, documentary, and music video projects. Sara understands photography as a universal narrative language endowed with great emotional and evocative power. The main driving force behind her work is sharing sensations and emotions through photography as a way to better understand ourselves and the world around us.