Pilar Cartro Benavides
Pilar Cartro Benavides


Region: North West
County: Greater Manchester
Local Authority: Bury Council
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Description

BAFTA Connect Member since 2022.
Pilar is a versatile creative producer with a proven record of forward planning & highly organisational skills. Effective and confident, assembling shoots on location in the UK and overseas.

Pilar currently works for PARADISE CITY in London as assistant to producers Emilie Georges ("Call Me By Your Name", "Still Alice") and Naima Abed ("Call Me By Your Name", "True History of The Kelly Gang").

On the side Pilar runs production company PILI MILI FILMS based in Manchester, along writer & director Milda Baginskaite. She has produced multiple short films, promo content and two digital shows that have screened in numerous international film festivals, including BAFTA and OSCAR qualifying ones, achieving awards and special mentions along the way.


Pilar completed her Bachelor of Business Administration at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, then obtained a Master’s Degree from the Northern Film School in the UK specializing in Film Production.

Her most recent films; "The Last Cowboy in Salford", "The World is Ours for the Taking" and “Teddy” were awarded funding after winning respectively the BFI Film fund, New Creatives North fund (BBC Arts) and the Girls In Film fund sponsored by Dr Martens; “Layla, At Last” awarded the Sharjah Art Foundation fund and shot in Spain and Morocco. Other success stories include: Swinton’s “Unearthed” awarded funding after winning the Challenge Alexa Competition with ARRI and DIRECTORS UK; Alexander’s “Léo” receiving a nomination at the Student Royal Television Society Awards and screening in renowned festivals such as Camerimage in Poland; and Baginskaite’s “Pink Pool” starring Mireia Oriol (Netflix’s “Alma” and “Hockey Girls”), selected into four BAFTA qualifying festivals among others.


Special Interests

Movie Magic & EP Suite, Adobe Premiere, Final Draft, Celtx


Genre

Biopic, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Foreign, Historical, International, Musical, Mystery, Period, Political, Promo, Romance, Science Fiction, Studio, Theatre, Thriller, War, Western


Language(s)

French, Spanish, British English

Credits

  • NEW ENTRANT - Production
  • 2017: The City & The City (TV)
  • PRODUCTION - Assistant Producer
  • 2023: Drift (FF)
  • PRODUCTION - Producer
  • 2023: The Last Cowboy in Salford (SF)
  • 2022: Duet (SF)
  • 2020: Layla, At Last (SF)
  • 2020: Pink Pool (SF)
  • 2020: Teddy (SF)
  • 2019: Unearthed (SF)
  • 2018: 7 Planets (SF)
  • 2018: Beat Blue (SF)
  • 2017: Léo (SF)
  • PRODUCTION - Production Manager
  • 2020: Expiation (SF)
  • 2019: Bad JuJu (Web Series)

Affiliations
  • BAFTA - British Academy of Film and Television Arts