About

Leticia Agudo is from Seville, Spain, born in 1974. She went to Britain at 17 to pursue an education and career in the theatre. After completing an MA in theatre directing she moved to Dublin at the end of 1997 to form Common Currency Theatre Company with two colleagues. After three years directing and producing stage plays, Leticia did another Masters in Film Production to fulfill a life long inclination to tell stories visually.

She has since independently produced and directed two fiction shorts and worked as 1stAD and production manager for fiction and documentary. Following her interest in stories of women and outsiders, in 2003 she made her first documentary as director: Chiapas Women: The Untold Story, shown at Docusur 2006. She is a member of the European Documentary Network. She also teaches film in Coláiste Dhulaigh College in Dublin.

She set up her own production company Whackala in 2006, with animator, producer and director Paul McGrath to focus on their own projects. Their first is the award-winning After the Revolution, co-produced with Canal Sur TV and winner of NodoDocFest Best Film in 2009. In the same year they entered the International Documentary Challenge with Aoibheann O'Sullivan and made the short doc Forty Foot which won Best Film of the competition and has gone onto win more awards and feature in several international festivals.