Pilar Solano

Alicante, Spain

 

Director
Solano is a Spanish director, producer and screenwriter. She studied at the department of picture and sound at the Faculty of Information Science in Madrid, which is part of the Complutense University. Furthermore, she studied at the film school TAI, as well as taking additional classes in photography and videography. For a few years, she worked as a member of production teams of several short and full-length feature films. In 1993, she joined the production team of the TV station Canal+, where she worked on documentaries and special programs. In 2000, she joined the production team Produce + and worked with the leading Spanish producers. Three years later she began her career as a director along with the production work within Grupo Sogecable. She directed documentaries and some other programs. Some of her documentaries include: Universo Hip Hop, Mil y Una Lolas (2005), Presidentes de Película, La Fama y su Séquito (2006) and many others that she directed for Canal+. In 2007, she founded her own production house TRANSIT Producciones S.L., and in 2014, won the Goya award for best documentary with her film Las maestras de la República (2013).

Filmography


Films by this director

Las maestras de la República

(2013.)

Directed by: Pilar Solano
PHOTOGRAPHY: Isabel Ruiz
Synopsis:

This is a documentary about teachers from public schools of teh Spanish Republic who with their avid and courageous work helped modernize the educational system, took part in the movement for women’s rights and advanced the society as a whole. The film consist of fictional parts that reconstruct the work of one teacher as well as photographs and archival footage and it is based on the stories of historical researchers and teachers’ families. The film won the Goya award as best documentary in 2...

digital, color, 63 min
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