Inma de Reyes is an award-winning filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland, recognised for her work as a writer-director in documentary and factual film. Inma’s storytelling skills translate also into editing as she is a highly skilled editor with a wide range of technical abilities that make her work flow in synchronicity with her emotional connection to the story.
Known for creating bold, poetic films that explore themes of identity and belonging, she has developed a strong reputation within the Scottish film scene as a sensitive filmmaker that builds stories with strong emotional narratives.
Her debut feature The Boy and the Suit of Lights (2024) produced by Aconite Productions and Rustic Canyon Pictures won the Best First Feature award from the Grand Jury at Sheffield DocFest 2024.
Inma is bilingual (Spanish, English) and continues to develop projects in both languages- such as currently a hybrid drama with North Star Shorts, set in the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Aside from directing, Inma is an experienced facilitator and consultant working with communities and organisations to give voice to individuals with protected characteristics through filmmaking.
She graduated with a Masters of Fine Art in Film Directing from the Edinburgh College of Art and works regularly with Screen Scotland and Creative Scotland on a freelance basis.
She is as a guest lecturer in the MA Film Directing programme at the Edinburgh College of Art and has been a tutor for the past five years. She also currently mentors at NFTS in Documentary Storytelling.
Filmography
- Ghosts (2026) short fiction, BFI, Screen Scotland (North Star Shorts, Take Three)
- The Boy and the Suit of Lights (2024) feature documentary, Aconite Productions, Screen Scotland, Chicken & Egg Pictures. Winner Grand Jury Award Best Debut Feature Sheffield Doc/Fest
- Isabel’s Independence (2021) 30' documentary BBC Scotland.
- Vivir Bailando (2019), short documentary, Screen Scotland,
Scottish Documentary Institute
- Osamdeset Dinara (2019) short, Interaction Serbia, Film Art
- To Be a Torero (2018) short, self-funded, crowdfunding