Your grandma was a film pioneer. You find her lost footage. Now what?
The pianist Miguel Ángel Lozano embarks on a personal and artistic journey with the purpose of reconstructing the life of his grandmother, Maria Forteza (1910-60), singer and pioneer of Spanish sound films.
Editing
Seamless weave of reconstruction footage and family artifacts.
Direction
Directors become emotional archaeologists, not just historians.
Director
Núria Abad
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spain's early sound cinema is criminally underdocumented; this film joins a tiny wave reclaiming women's erased contributions.
Miguel Ángel's piano score for the reconstructed footage becomes his actual conversation with his grandmother—she sang, he answers.
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