Paula Salamanca is a Colombian actress and filmmaker based in Germany since 2018. She began acting at the age of 15 and has since built a career that weaves together performance, screenwriting, and directing. Fluent in Spanish, English, and German, she works across theater and film, exploring stories that place human complexity at the center.

She has been part of several theater groups, performing in productions such as Los Diplomas, Los Imbéciles están de Testigos, and El cielo está hecho un infierno, while also taking on creative challenges like writing and adapting texts for works including Romeo and Juliet and La fiesta de mi casa. These experiences shaped her interest in emotionally layered characters, inner conflict, and collaborative creation.

Paula entered the world of cinema in 2013, an experience that deepened her passion both for acting in front of the camera and for audiovisual storytelling. She has appeared in films such as Para no olvidar —winner of Best Regional Short Film at FICFUSA—, Solo los lunes, Sleep Tight, Geheime Verehrung, The Next Move, and Welcome Back to Kindness, nominated in the “Best Idea” category at the 99FIRE-FILMS AWARDS. She has also lent her voice as narrator to the documentaries Nydia Erika: Sueños de un país mejor and Alas en los pies.

As a director and screenwriter, Paula recently completed the short film Are You Real?. She also directed the short film Mindfulmess for the 48h Film Fest in Bolzano. In 2025 she wrote and directed No Room for Error, which is in post-production, and serves as producer on the feature film Caroline, currently in pre-production.

In addition, she has collaborated in various creative departments —art direction, makeup, and script continuity— on projects such as Clam Diving for Beginners and The Mess.

Her work is driven by a continuous search for stories that question, move, and reveal human vulnerability. For Paula, acting, writing, directing, and producing are complementary ways of understanding the world and telling the stories that transform us.