About the Author
Clara Sanz was born in Albacete ( Spain) , January 7, 1980She studied Humanities that led her to cinema and studies of communication and visual anthropology, including the Master 2 of creative documentary in Lussas. She is co-founder and editor of the Spanish magazine "Lumière", which gives a critical space to committed cinema and new cinematographic forms. She has collaborated with different festivals and associations such as the Mostra Ficção Viva Curitiba (Brazil), the European Film Festival of Seville, the African Film Festival of Tarifa, the cinema Videodrome 2 in Marseille and the association Ardèche Images in Lussas, where she carries out film workshops with the inhabitants. She also collaborates with other directors as a cameraman.Andrómedas, her first feature film, has been selected for many festivals, including the 57th International Film Festival of Gijón, the 26th International Festival of Independent Cinema of Barcelona.
Developed Projects
Every year, the week before All Saints' Day, the cemetery of a small village in La Mancha (Casas Ibanez, Spain) is the site of a most interesting spectacle. All week long, the women of the village are busy there, equipped with brooms, cloths and mops to prepare the tombs for the big All Saints' Day visits. They are all ages, all styles: old, young, melancholic and dashing, laughing people, with them, the cemetery is filled with colorful aprons, words, stories, memories and encounters. At the back of the cemetery, a woman is watering yellow daisies which are planted on an empty apartment plot. Next to it, a small plaque reads: “In memory of the 23 men shot in this place on the 25th, 1939, to defend democracy and freedom.”
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