Aimara Reques

Aimara Reques is the founder of Aconite Productions, an innovative company based in Scotland dedicated to the production of high-quality creative films for international distribution. She has over 25 years' experience in the film industry in the UK and has collaborated with a number of renowned directors and producers from the UK and internationally. She is a winner of two BAFTA Scotland Awards; a Fox Searchlight Award; an Amnesty International Media Award; and the Golden Star Award from El Gouna Film Festival; and she was nominated as director for the Grierson Award for Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005. She was the leading producer and co-writer of the ambitious Victor Kossakovsky's film AQUARELA which premiered at Venice 2018 and was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2020. Other Aconite credits include SOUND FOR THE FUTURE by Matt Hulse, BRASILIA: LIFE AFTER DESIGN by Bart Simpson, 15 IN GAZA by Rana Ayoub and Wesam Mousa and EVERYBODY'S CHILD by Garry Fraser.