Málaga, on the 3rd of March.- The film director Pilar Palomero, is a winner of three Goya Awards with her debut film 'Las niñas' and will receive this Sunday night the Malaga Talent Award at the Malaga Festival. She is given this award for the career of a filmmaker with a short but highly awarded and successful career. She said that from a very young age she was very clear that she wanted to work in film, but that she did not know that this could be a profession, which is why it was difficult for her 'to verbalise that dream'.
 
‘Film always came first, long before philology, although in fact film has always gone hand in hand with literature. I really liked writing and I thought that it was going to help me a lot in the future as a filmmaker because I didn't know what branch I wanted to work in, whether as a screenwriter, director of photography, director… And all this came because at the time when I started making films I didn't know that this was considered a profession as such, so it was difficult for me to verbalise that dream and decide what to choose', she explained in a meeting with the media, audience, and students of the Málaga Talent school moderated by the director of the Festival, Juan Antonio Vigar.
 
Palomero (Zaragoza, 1980), already knows what it's like to collect awards in Malaga. She did so in 2020 at the pandemic event, with her first feature film, where she received the Biznaga de Oro Award for best film. 'The truth is that it was all very nice, but a maelstrom at the same time because it was selected for Berlin. Finally, it was cancelled because of the health emergency. It was my first film and I didn't really know what to do. But luckily, we were able to premiere here in Malaga and everything went very well, so I have very good memories', she confessed laughing.
 
The woman from Zaragoza had to devote herself to teaching for a time due to the 2008 crisis, and later abandoned it because Bela Tarr, a film director she admired, was preparing workshops to make films in the community. Then she went to Sarajevo to fulfil her dream of becoming a filmmaker.
 
'Before I left for Sarajevo, I already had it clear in my mind that I wanted to make a script about my education and my childhood. That mixture of being a trophy woman, but at the same time being told that we could be independent and that we could devote ourselves to whatever we wanted. I felt that there was something that could connect with plenty of people, but I wasn't aware of it until it was released and the debate it generated', she pointed out.
 
The filmmaker does not want to consider herself as a reference point for the new generations, but she does recognise in her female colleagues a female perspective that she feels very comfortable with, and which she shares with them, as well as 'a different way of making films and I think that it is also, dare I say it, healthier for everyone'.
 
After her success with 'Las niñas' and 'La maternal', Palomero now faces the challenge of her third film, 'Los destellos'. She shot it at the end of 2023 based on a story by Eider Rodríguez, a story of love, heartbreak, and memory starring Antonio de la Torre and Patricia López Arnáiz.