Irene Lopez(IV)

Irene Lopez, born in 1980 in San Salvador, El Salvador, is a Swedish fiction director, documentary filmmaker, scriptwriter and animator. She has lived most of her life in Lund and Stockholm. She studied theatre at Stockholm University in 2001-02 and graduated with a BA in animation at the School of Arts and Crafts (konstfack) 2003-05. She graduated in 2013 from SKH (UNIARTS), with a BA in documentary film and 2023 with a MA in fiction direction at SKH (UNIARTS). Her research was about the ethics and truth in narrative when converting a documentary piece into a fiction film.

Lopez worked part time at SVT news ( Swedish television) as a graphic designer and as a moderator for youth programs such as Anaconda at UR ( Swedish television station). After working 3 years at tech company Scrive as media content manager and filmmaker she decided to go back to freelance.