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Maria Elorza (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1988) and Maider Fernandez (Donostia / San Sebastian, 1988) decided to set up Las chicas de Pasaik in 2012.
The first films by this new group were Irudi mintzatuen hiztegi poetikoa (2014, directed with Aitor Gametxo and winner of the prize for best Basque screenplay Basque at the Zinebi festival), and the collective documentary Errautsak (2014, as part of Zinergentziak#14 at Zinebi). Agosto sin ti (2015) has been screeened at a number of festivals: Zinebi, the Seville European Film Festival, Filmadrid and Alcances. In 2015 they made a short film as part of the Kalebegiak project.