Laura Tejero is a Spanish journalist and filmmaker. During her undergraduate double degree in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at Carlos III University of Madrid she lived in Spain, Italy, California and Australia, where she filmed her first documentary, The Forgotten Children, on Australia's offshore detention centers for migrants. Since then she has worked for a TV production company researching topics for documentaries, compiling resources, selecting characters and stories for news pieces and producing and filming reports, mainly focused on social and politica issues.
In 2017, when the strongest earthquake in a century hits Mexico, 12-year-old Frida survives under the rubble of an elementary school. Through 24-hour media coverage the whole country follows every step of her rescue.
Annual Shorts Challenge Winner, Annapolis Film Festival, 2019
After serving 41 years of a life sentence in San Quentin Prison, Darryl fears his imminent release into a world he has never experienced before.
Mammoth ivory sustains livelihoods in an arctic community, but also embodies the threat of a changing climate.
Surrounded by the absurd world of humans, dogs struggle against their instincts to comply with their owners' wishes.