An audiovisual project giving voice to pioneer women of their time
On Thursday, September 12, Madrid held the presentation of Cartas Vivas, an audiovisual, educational and communicative project by the University of Barcelona, the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) and Santander Bank Foundation, carried out by students and lecturers from both universities, which recovers the voice of female authors and thinkers in Spanish from the 20th century, pioneers of their time. On October 9, the project will be presented at the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.
On Thursday, September 12, Madrid held the presentation of Cartas Vivas, an audiovisual, educational and communicative project by the University of Barcelona, the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) and Santander Bank Foundation, carried out by students and lecturers from both universities, which recovers the voice of female authors and thinkers in Spanish from the 20th century, pioneers of their time. On October 9, the project will be presented at the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.
Cartas Vivas, with a great educational potential, is an original idea by the filmmaker Paula Ortiz, UB lectuerer, and the writer Nuria Capdevila Argüelles, professor at the College of Humanities of the University of Exeter. The initiative joins cinema, literature, social commitment and research, apart from women support.
Cartas Vivas constitutes a free online audiovisual library -three film capsules per author, about three minutes long-, which updates and completes the humanist and literary commitment of the collection Obra Fundamental (from Santander Bank Foundation) to recover authors in Spanish.
Hildegart Rodríguez, Pilar Primo de Rivera and Carmen Laforet start the collection
The first three chapters of the collection, willing to continue and grow over the upcoming years, are already available. First, the author Sandra Escena plays the sexual reformist Hildegart Rodríguez, with her letters to Havelock Ellis. Second, Consuelo Trujillo plays the creator of the Female Section of Falange, Pilar Primo de Rivera, with her interviews. Last, Marián Álvarez plays the writer Carmen Laforet, with her letters from De corazón y alma, edited in Cuadernos de Obra Fundamental.