La Perla Films emerged in 2013 as the brainchild of investigative journalist and filmmaker Carlos Troncoso Grao, with a single intention: to identify true stories that outshine fiction, to investigate them, document them, and diffuse them to a global audience.

Fascinated by the Humanities and Literature, Carlos graduated in Journalism at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, with an exchange scholarship to study at the Catholic University of Uruguay. He also completed postgraduate studies in Screenwriting for Film and Television at the Faculty of Communication of the Pontifical University of Salamanca and possesses a Master's degree in Arab and Hebrew Cultures from the University of Granada. Since then, he has been closely linked with the academic world.

Thanks to his multidisciplinary background, he started working in various roles in press and communications departments, and subsequently received an EU grant to join the team at the Hispanic Research Centre at the University of Roehampton in London. There, he developed research projects on film and audiovisual cultures and taught courses on Spanish and European cinema.

It's in London where the initiative to found La Perla Films flourishes, to produce non-fiction content and to offer research, documentation, and analysis services for audiovisual content for TV or film.

His debut feature, Algo más que una pasión (co-produced by RTVE and available on Filmin), premiered at the 34th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, won the Silver Biznaga for "Affirming Women's Rights" at the 18th Málaga Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the 8th Islantilla International Film Festival. It has also enjoyed a wide run at festivals in Spain, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil. This pioneering documentary emerges from an extensive research into the origins of women's football in Spain and Europe and was recently named by Vogue Spain as one of the best documentaries on the subject.

His second feature-length documentary, En la ruina, is the result of a beautiful life experience and research into Roman heritage in the Gulf of Cádiz. It was a finalist at the 5th International Archaeological Film Festival of Castile and Leon and was selected for festivals in Spain, Uruguay, and Portugal.

In recent years, Carlos has collaborated with the University of Cordoba through La Perla Films, offering lectures on editing and production of documentary films, and with an external academic internship program for students of the Degrees in Translation and Film and Culture.

Currently, after directing the series Crimen en primera persona for Mediaset and going through the Residencias program of the Spanish Film Academy with his feature-length documentary project El hombre que siempre existió, Carlos and La Perla Films are working on the development of different film projects, and on the implementation of research and documentation for film and TV.