Latest publications: women directors in Spanish cinema

Constructing an owner garde: women directors in Spanish cinema (from de begining to 2000), is the title of the book we presented last November 6.

The chapter I wrote refers to the Spanish female film director Cristina Andreu.

                

Abstract

Cristina Andreu emerges as a promising young director in Spanish cinema in 1988 with “Brumal”, a film which was not distributed and for which she was nominated for the Goya Awards 1990. Previously, she had been the director of an episode of the film “Delirios de amor” (1986), a collective work in which the producer did not include her name in the credits. Andreu has many works shown on alternative circuits linked to solidarity projects. In fact, given the lack of commercial exposure, her work is almost invisible. This chapter reconstructs her identity by recovering her voice and her most significant films. The words of Cristina Andreu are reflections of a committed woman, who expressed herself through documentary film, but in favor of the activism of fiction because through it she can reach more people