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Directors Statement

The opposed and complementary personalities of the two female directors have emerged in a creative methodology based on deep dialogue. The process seeked to connect the seed, an Andalusian underground film from 1982, with the biological reality that the directors are going through, the end of the fertility years. Facing their maternal instinct, they decided to make a film instead of having children. This apparently free choice hides structural impossibilities for our generation. Our early 21st-century freedom is an illusion.

DIRECTORS

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María Royo

Caracas, 1983

Director, producer and editor of documentaries. After her studies in audiovisual communication and cinema, she obtained an MFA in Media Arts Production at the City College of New York, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship. She was also an artistic resident at the Spanish Academy in Rome.

She directed the documentaries Rediscovering Pape, which received a Student Academy Award and a College Student Award, Education without Borders and La Invisible (selected in the cycle 'Directed by Women Spain 2021').

She is currently a film professor and advisor at the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin.

Julia de Castro

Ávila, 1984

Multidisciplinary artist. She studied art history, acting and violin at university. After her artistic residency at the Spanish Academy in Rome, she published the book La retorica delle Puttane.

As a musician, she has released 2 albums with her project De la Puríssima and a solo album, La Historiadora. As an actress, she has participated in more than 15 plays and several films, including Der Geldkomplex (In Panorama, Berlinale), and Anatomía de una Criminal. In 2020, she was nominated for the Valle Inclán award for best actress. In 2023 she participated in the film Teresa by Paula Ortiz, and the series Poquita Fe.

She is also a Radio host at Radio3.