Paloma Suau

Paloma Suau is a director, writer, producer, and editor born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her body of work covers documentary portrait features short film, television music specials, sitcoms, series, live concerts, music videos and commercials. A film graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts '94, she founded her own production company, Ninguna Ciencia (No Rocket Science) in 1996 in San Juan. To date, she has worked with well known artists like, Ricky Martin, Rubén Blades, Juanes, Celia Cruz, José Feliciano, Marc Anthony, Juan Luis Guerra, Julieta Venegas, and Miguel Bosé, among others. She produced and directed the annual Puerto Rican Television show El Especial del Banco Popular, produced by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. Broadcast each December for over 30-years, each special is a musical-documentary that celebrates Puerto Rican and Latin American vocalists, songwriters, composers, musicians, and artists of all kinds. Credits: Guitarra Mía, Raices , Encuentro , 8 Puertas , Querido Reyes Magos, En Mi País. She co-directed the full-feature documentary Dream Makers with award-winning director Susan Koch. Paloma co-wrote, co-directed, and edited the television sitcom Elena Santos. In 2009, inspired by the teachings of her mentor, the late Dr. David Simon, co-founder of the Chopra Center, she made a short-film called Popcorn. She followed this with The Five Awakenings, a documentary she co-directed and participated in the filming of, based on the life and work of Dr. Simon. For nine years, concurrent to her other projects, she worked on a documentary feature on the life of legendary Spanish performer Miguel Bosé, titled, Family Life that was finished in 2012 (yet to be released). The Happy Accident is Suau's latest documentary feature film, this time, inspired on the life and works of beloved Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell (2019).