Odile Antonio-Baez

Antonio-Baez's professional identity is rooted firmly in production and development — don't go looking for an acting filmography, because there isn't one. Her career appears to have taken shape through the institutional channels that define serious European film development: industry labs, co-production networks, and the kind of slow-burn relationship-building that doesn't generate press releases. She joined Pecado Films and Suculenta Producciones in 2019, and her participation in TorinoFilmLab in 2021 and EAVE+ in 2023 signals a producer who's actively investing in craft and international network-building, not just attaching her name to finished projects. EAVE+ in particular is a program for experienced producers looking to scale — so by 2023, she wasn't a newcomer. The Víctor Erice collaboration is the career moment that will follow her name for a long time. *Close Your Eyes* — a meditation on memory, film, and disappearance — premiered at Cannes 2023 to significant critical attention, and producing it meant working alongside one of Spanish cinema's most mythologized directors. Hard to say if that relationship developed through Pecado Films or through earlier development work, but the result speaks for itself. Her 2024 follow-up, *¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila*, brought a different register — the film centers on comedian Miguel Gila — and its San Sebastián premiere showed she's not locked into a single aesthetic lane. Across her executive producer credits (*Mamacruz*, *Animal/Humano*, *El universo de Óliver*), a picture emerges of someone embedded in a specific ecosystem of Spanish independent cinema, one that values auteur work and festival circulation over commercial volume.