Isabel Peña

Isabel Peña Domingo (Zaragoza, 1983) is a Spanish film and television screenwriter. She has received the 2019 Goya Award and the 2019 Feroz Award for the screenplay of the film 'El reino' (2018), as well as the 2023 Goya Award and the 2023 Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Medal for that of the feature film 'As bestas' (2022), both co-written with Rodrigo Sorogoyen. He is also co-writer of the films 'Stockholm' (2013) and 'Que Dios nos perdone' (2016).

Works

Una Situación Extraordinaria

A man starts noticing strange behavior and even different physical traits in his lover, and starts suspecting something horrifying.

Release Date2020-06-03

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Vote Count3

Martina y la luna

Release Date2008-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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Vote Count1

The Realm

Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.

Release Date2018-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count451

The Chalk Line

After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.

Release Date2022-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Vote Count357

The Beasts

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

Release Date2022-07-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count841

Mother

Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year old son has disappeared. The last thing she heard of him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France and couldn't find his father. Nowadays, Elena lives on this same beach and manages a restaurant. She is finally beginning to emerge from this tragic episode when she meets a French teenager who strongly reminds her of her lost son. The two of them will embark on a relationship which will sow chaos and distrust around them.

Release Date2019-11-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count123

The Wailing

Andrea, in search of her biological family, feels stalked by an invisible threat. Other women before them have suffered the same fate. Twenty years earlier, on the other side of the world, Camille, fascinated by Marie, tries to warn her of a threat hanging over her.

Release Date2024-10-25

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Vote Count90

May God Save Us

Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.

Release Date2016-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count452

Riot Police

A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.

Release Date2020-10-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count144

Negación

Release Date2022-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Stockholm

The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. However, as they walk through the night in Madrid, they share their desires, secrets, and maybe a few little lies. But soon the film brings us back to the harsh reality of power struggles, psychological games and conflicts between the sexes. Stockholm thus offers an incredible reading of the relations between young people today.

Release Date2013-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count113

Offworld

A solar storm hits the Earth, causing a widespread blackout. In this new reality, five stories unfold, focusing on characters who struggle to adapt to a world without electricity, telecommunications or means of transport, where they are forced to face up to their most primal needs, instincts and fears.

Release Date2022-09-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count31

Frágiles

Release Date2012-08-02

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Episode Count16

Vote Count1

Ava

Release Date2023-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Beloved

An acclaimed film director and his daughter, an unsuccessful actress, shoot a film together after years of estrangement and a difficult past that none of them want to talk about.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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