Laura García Pousa, course coordinator for Audiovisual Communication and professor of Film and Television Scripts, took part as a speaker in the international congress “Women in Iberian Cinema”, held at the University of Lisbon’s School of Arts and Humanities
The paper, presented at the international congress “Women in Iberian Cinema”, was entitled: “Del agroglamour al videoarte. La identidad en el cine gallego contemporáneo realizada por mujeres” [From Agro-Glamour to Video Art: Identity in Contemporary Galician Films Made by Women]. The event was organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon.
Framed within the creative and cultural context of the New Galician Film movement, in this paper, García Pousa analyses the common narrative elements, poetic constants and drive for identity that have led to the distinct range of audiovisual forms and expressions present in the audiovisual works currently being made by women in Galicia.
Laura G. Pousa is a scriptwriter and holder of a PhD in Film History from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She combines her professional career as a creator of fiction — with more than ten years’ experience as a television scriptwriter — with university teaching and research. She was a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (Aranjuez Campus) and is currently teaching at UIC Barcelona. In 2012, she was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film for Meine Liebe and received the Abbas Kiarostami Film Seminar Award.
