Elena graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, where she specialised in drawing and painting. After five years of preparation, she decided to take her education further in the field of animation. Elena attended the “Commissioned films and book adaptation” course at the European MEDIA programme at La Poudrière. The course gave her a chance to explore storytelling as well as animation and reinforced her decision to develop further in these two areas; she therefore applied to the NFTS to study animation direction.