Núria Frigola Torrent

Production

Núria Frigola Torrent

Núria Frigola Torrent is a director, producer, and screenwriter. Her work explores identity, memory, and diversity, themes that have shaped her career as a filmmaker and audiovisual communicator. With over twenty years of experience designing campaigns and communication strategies for organizations such as Amnesty International, UN agencies, WWF, and the Red Cross, she has integrated social impact with filmmaking, developing inclusive narratives in collaboration with diverse communities. As a director, her documentary "The Song of the Butterflies" won the Best Ibero-American Documentary award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival and has been screened internationally. She has also produced projects such as "Daughter of the Lake", "Our Amazon", "Purus-Manu", and "Being Hamlet", in addition to participating in the Quipu Project as an impact producer and starring in the film "The Ferns". She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication, master's degrees in Human Development and Screenwriting, and works between Catalonia and Peru.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Daughter of the Lake poster
7.0

At the height of the Peruvian gold rush, Nélida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother. A gold deposit valued at billions of dollars lies just beneath Nélida’s lakes and leads farmers and Latin America’s biggest gold producer into conflict.

Daughter of the Lake

2015

The Song of the Butterflies poster
NR

Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in Peru. Rember's paintings are inspired by the stories his grandmother Martha told him before she died. However, he has never dived into the darkest part of his nation’s history: the indigenous massacre during the rubber boom. Martha is a survivor of the horror and she speaks to Rember in dreams guiding him in a spiritual journey back to the jungle. He first visits his parents, who are also artists, in the Peruvian jungle. And finally, he sails to La Chorrera, in Colombia, where he confronts the past and meets other members of his clan.

The Song of the Butterflies

2020

The Song of the Butterflies poster
NR

Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in Peru. Rember's paintings are inspired by the stories his grandmother Martha told him before she died. However, he has never dived into the darkest part of his nation’s history: the indigenous massacre during the rubber boom. Martha is a survivor of the horror and she speaks to Rember in dreams guiding him in a spiritual journey back to the jungle. He first visits his parents, who are also artists, in the Peruvian jungle. And finally, he sails to La Chorrera, in Colombia, where he confronts the past and meets other members of his clan.

The Song of the Butterflies

2020

The Song of the Butterflies poster
NR

Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in Peru. Rember's paintings are inspired by the stories his grandmother Martha told him before she died. However, he has never dived into the darkest part of his nation’s history: the indigenous massacre during the rubber boom. Martha is a survivor of the horror and she speaks to Rember in dreams guiding him in a spiritual journey back to the jungle. He first visits his parents, who are also artists, in the Peruvian jungle. And finally, he sails to La Chorrera, in Colombia, where he confronts the past and meets other members of his clan.

The Song of the Butterflies

2020

Cebiche & pa amb tomata poster
NR

A young woman from a small town in Catalonia travels to Peru and falls so in love with the country that she decides to become a citizen. While battling Latin American bureaucracy, her homeland is experiencing a revolution for independence from Spain. This documentary chronicles the director's journey to obtain her new Peruvian ID and offers a charming reflection on national identities.

Cebiche & pa amb tomata

2015