Barbara Muschietti

Barbara Muschietti studied media and communication at the University of California, Los Angeles.  During her college years, she rendered her services as a script reader for Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and several independent producers. Once she finished her studies, she started working as a production coordinator. 

Her first film, Evita (directed by Alan Parker, 1996), led her to shoots in Argentina, Hungary and England.  She then decided to engage in script development and film financing at Cecchi Gori Group in Los Angeles, where she took part in the development of movies such as Life Is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni, 1997).

After three years with Cecchi Gori and nine in Los Angeles, she decided to move to London, where she returned to production coordination and where she created The Visual Factory after taking an interest in the emerging world of visual effects.

Two years later, longing to work with her brother, Andy, she moved to Spain and joined Group Films, an advertising production company in Barcelona, where she produced many commercials with directors of international prestige, such as Luc Besson and Alan Parker.

In 2003, Muschietti was awarded a Carolina grant to develop the script Los Jardines de Abril with her brother.  Later that year, she opened her own advertising production company, Toma 78, with her partners Andy Muschietti and Agustín Berruezo and produced the short film Mamá (directed by Andy Muschietti, 2008).  In 2008, she co-wrote with Andy her third script, The Yearning.

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