Born in Spain, Pilar graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza in 2003. In 2006, Pilar graduated in Cinematography at the Madrid Film School (ECAM). In 2009, she directed Niño Balcón, a short film that enjoyed an extensive trajectory in national and international festivals, winning more than 25 awards and more than 150 selections. The Malaga Film Festival, the Huesca Film Festival, the Warsaw Film Festival, Film Festival of San Luis, or the Puchon International Film Festival, were some of these festivals. During this period, Pilar combined her film projects working as a screenwriter for television and as co-screenwriter of the feature film Chaco, by the Bolivian director Diego Mondaca, recently premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2020. She also worked as a teacher of Scriptwriting and Photography. Her professional career took a 180o turn when in 2013 she was one of the 16 filmmakers selected by the Hungarian film director Béla Tarr to participate in his collaborative project film.factory in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). At the film.factory she had the opportunity to work and learn filmmaking from some of the most important critics, directors and theorists of the contemporary film industry, such as Gus Van Sant, Carlos Reygadas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Cristian Mungiu, Guy Maddin, Tilda Swinton, Juliette Binoche, Gael García Bernal, Jean-Michel Frodon, Rasha Salti, Thierry Garrel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jytte Jensen, among others. During this period, she has written and directed the short films Noć (2015) and La Noche de todas las cosas (2016), the latter produced by Inicia Films and developed as part of the NISI MASA's European Short Pitch, which was part of, among others, the official section of the Busan International Short Film Festival. She also directed the medium- length film Zimsko Sunce (2017), which received a special mention from the BiH films jury at the last Sarajevo Film Festival and was premiered in Spain at the Alcalá de Henares Film Festival 2017 and at the Festival Márgenes, and the creative documentary Horta (2017), which had its world premiere at the prestigious Doclisboa'17 and was selected in DocumentaMadrid, D'A Festival de Cine de Autor, Festival de Cine de Málaga and in the Frames of Representation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, among others. In 2020 Pilar premiered her first feature film Las Niñas at the Malaga Film Festival, with which she won the Golden Biznaga for Best Film. After its screening at the festival, it reached commercial cinemas to great public and critical acclaim. Since its premiere, it has not ceased to accumulate awards and recognitions, including 4 Goya Awards (Best Film, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography), making history by becoming the first director to win the awards for Best New Director and Best Film for the same project. The film produced by Inicia Films and Bteam Pictures was also the big winner at the Feroz Awards and the Forqué Awards, as well as countless other awards in different national film festivals and exhibitions. Pilar has also participated in the Berlinale Talents in 2016 and 2021 and Sarajevo Talents 2016. She is part of the film collective BISTRIK7. In 2020 she was selected to take part in the Residencies of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cinematographiques, with which she developed her next project, La Maternal, The film premiered in the official section of the last edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, for which its leading actress, Carla Quílez, won the Silver Shell for Best performance. The film has recently been released to great critical acclaim and has been nominated for the Feroz Awards for Best Director (Pilar Palomero), Best, Best Leading Actress (Carla Quílez) and Best Supporting Actress (Ángela Cervantes) and also de Goya awards for Best Director, Best Films and Best Supporting Actress. She has just filmed her last film, Los destellos, pending on release.