Mercedes Álvarez was born in 1966 in Aldealseñor, a small village in Castilla y León, Spain. In 1997, she directed the fictional short El viento africano/The African Wind. Since 1998, she has focused on documentary and has her master’s degree in Creative Documentary from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She worked as editor on José Luís Guerín’s film En construcción/Work in Progress. In 2004, she made debut with the documentary El Cielo Gira/The Sky Turns. The film won awards in a number of prestigious film festivals. Recently, she directed the feature film Mercado Futuros/Future’s Market, currently being selected to participate in prominent international film festivals. Source: http://docma.es/3xdoc/edicion/3xdoc-2012/biografia-mercedes-alvarez/
