Carmen Cobos was born in Southern Spain. In 1991 she started working as researcher for the BBC. In 1997 she moved to The Netherlands where she started her own production company Cobos Films BV, producing internationally successful cinema & television documentaries. Her productions have been shown by a ll main public broadcasters in The Netherlands and abroad. They were also released in cinemas and on DVD in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Switzerland and Poland. All her films have on average been shown in more than 100 film festivals around the world.