Irene Gutierrez is a researcher and filmmaker from Ceuta, a Spanish city located in Northern Africa. She earned a B.A. in documentary from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Havana, Cuba) before receiving her M.F.A. in Film Studies with high honors. She has directed "Border Diaries" (2012), "Hotel Nueva Isla" (2014), "Connected Walls" (2015), "Exile Diaries" (2019) and "Between Dog and Wolf" (2020). She has received funding from Tribeca TFI program, Sundance Institute, the Spanish Ministry of Culture (ICAA) or the Spanish General Consulate in New York City, among others. Her films have been screened in more than fifty international film festivals as the Berlinale and Rotterdam IFFR and art venues as MoMA and Lincoln Center. She is currently a PhD fellow at VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussels and University Carlos III of Madrid and member of the research groups ECHO: Research group on media, culture, politics and TECMERIN: TV-Cinema memory, representation and industry. Her films and research link the intimate portrait with the landscape as an expression of the political tensions between individuals and nations.