Saioa Miguel

Saioa Miguel (Bilbao, 1994) is a Basque filmmaker and producer. With a diploma in Film Direction from the School of Arts (TAI) and specialising in Documentary and Experimental Film at the school (LAV), she furthered her training with a scholarship from the Fundación Contemporánea (La Fábrica) to study a Master’s Degree in Cultural Project Management and a postgraduate degree in Film Curating at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE).

She is currently developing her feature film project Leize, presented at Elkarrekin Sortzen, selected by Noka Creación and awarded the D’A prize at Talentuen Gunea. She is the director of the short films Erik(a), a collage of film formats about the life of its protagonist, a trans man, which was part of the Zinegoak and Márgenes festivals. Her latest short documentary, Gatz Harana, which focuses on the salt workers of the Añana valleys, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival (Zinemaldi). In 2024, she received the Creation Award at the Zinebi International Documentary Festival for her work Piztiak.

At the same time, she combines her audiovisual work with analogue photography and collage. That same year, she was selected to represent Bizkaia at the first Euskal Herria Photography Meeting, where she opened her first photographic exhibition dedicated to the Maskaradak and the context of her story Leize.