Maite Conesa

Spain
Director of the Castilla y León film archive
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She is a journalist, a career civil servant and her department head. Author of articles and specialised publications on photography; lecturer, speaker and member of juries and film festivals. Promoter and director of the film archive’s digital magazine Espacio I(magen)+M(emoria), she is the representative of Castilla y León in the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s National Plan for Visual and Sound Art and Culture.

Her most prominent line of work and professional focus is that which links cinema and photography to the concepts of cultural heritage, collective memory and social and cultural responsibility. She is the driving force behind designating the film El Canal de Castilla (Leopoldo Alonso, 1931) as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), the first film to receive this status in Spain.

She is a corresponding member for Salamanca of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (2024) and the Spanish Film Academy (2025). She is the first woman to head a film archive in our country.