María Miró

Film director and screenwriter, member of CIMA. Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. She was part of the Madrid Film Collective in the last years of Franco’s regime and the firsts of the transition. It is the only group that filmed political and social events, often clandestinely, broadcast on televisions around the world, and whose work showed in the exhibition Poéticas de la democracia el Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Imágenes y contraimágenes de la Transición. María worked as a TVE program director in Catalonia in the 80s, with documentary works about contemporary plastic artists and intellectuals. Coordinator of the cinema area of the Island Culture Centre of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria for three years, in which workshops, meetings with filmmakers were held and the original film exhibition began. In addition, she has worked on the evaluation of projects elegible for grants from the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) on several occasions. She is the screenwriter of Los baúles del retorno directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón in 1995, a feature film selected at film festivals such as Seminci, La Habana, Málaga or the Festival Cine por Mujeres, where she won the prize for the best film. The documentary Cayuco about African emigration is one of her last works, with selections in the African Film Festival of Tarifa, Agadir Cinema & Migrations Festival and the International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, among others.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria