Clara Bilbao’s career as a costume designer started shortly after her plans to become a pilot failed. Since then he’s worked in countless Spanish productions and dressed actors like Eduardo Noriega, Juliette Binoche, Sam Shepard and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
The screening of the film Something Is About to Happen (Que nadie duerma), by Antonio Méndez-Esparza, is part of the 20th London Spanish Film Festival program and will be followed by a Q&A with Clara Bilbao, who designed the costumes for the film and Fashion & Cinema’s Director Joana Granero.
QUE NADIE DUERMA
Something Is About to Happen
dir: Antonio Méndez Esparza
with Malena Alterio, Rodrigo Poisón, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Luis Torrijo
Spain/Romania | 2023 | 122 min | UK premiere
In Spanish with English subtitles
Lucía, a middle-aged single woman working as an IT programmer, faces a challenging situation when she loses her job in a struggling market. Deciding to take a drastic turn in her life, she buys a taxi and its license. In her new role as a taxi driver, she encounters a variety of interesting people and discovers a newfound freedom and confidence she never imagined. This transformation is superbly depicted through the costumes designed by Clara Bilbao.
Based on the novel by Juan José Millás, Méndez Esparza takes us on a suspenseful journey through the streets of Madrid. Malena Alterio’s portrayal of Lucía has earned her several Best Actress awards.
£15, £13 conc.
ABOUT CLARA BILBAO
Clara Bilbao got her university degree at CSDMM (Fashion Design Centre of Madrid, Universidad Politécnica) and started working in film in 1994. Her work has earned her several awards, among them two Goya Awards for Best Costume Design for Blackthorn (Mateo Gil, 2012), with Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea, and Nobody wants the Night (Isabel Coixet, 2016), with Juliette Binoche and Gabriel Byrne.
Besides her creative work, she owns the company Un Burro de Cine, a big wardrobe store and atelier in Madrid supplying film, theatre and TV productions all around Spain.
ABOUT JOANA GRANERO
Fascinated by the then underexplored relationship between fashion, cinema and costume design, Joana founded Fashion & Cinema in 2012.
Born in Tarragona, she graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona, obtaining later a Msc in Political and Social Theory from Birkbeck College. After working in publishing in London, Joana focused on the ideation and production of film and cultural events, creating in 2005 the London Spanish Film Festival. In 2008 the Ambassador of Spain in London awarded her with the civil merit medal (Orden de Isabel la Católica) in recognition of her work with Spanish cinema in London. With some twenty years of experience in the sector, she also works as an independent curator, producer and lecturer.
