She liked travelling to faraway countries, reading, watching thrillers, taking photos, teaching, chatting with friends, Mallorca, the Giorgio perfume, Peruvian food and yoghurt ice-cream with blueberries. She loved Emma and Leyre. But above all, she loved her profession as a filmmaker and defending her female colleagues’ rights from CIMA (a Spanish women filmmakers and audiovisual media association), which she helped to found and to which she dedicated many hours.
Patricia Ferreira was a woman who could be defined as ‘complex thinker’ because she didn’t settle for staying at the surface of reality, but she used to endlessly dive into its deeper aspects. Maybe that’s why she used to withdraw into her work so drastically. Not only during the shootings, the preparation of sessions with her pupils or the analysis of a legal text. In those cases, her ability of abstraction was so complete that the world around her no longer existed.
That’s how her seven feature films were born. The first one, almost unknown,
El Paraíso, was made for Televisión Española. It was her first fiction film after participating in dozens of documentaries, such as the famous TV series
Equinoccio, that was followed, years after, by
El país en la mochila, Paraísos cercanos or
Todo el mundo es música. In the cinematography area, we find
Sé quién eres, El alquimista impaciente, Para que no me olvides, Señora de…, Los niños salvajes (her most precious film that got a Biznaga de Oro Award at the Malaga Festival), and
Thi Mai. She also had medium-length-films such as
El secreto mejor guardado and
El amanecer de Misrak.
A filmography in which memory, family relationships and the inescapable fact of death make up a coherent and revealing whole of its time. A trajectory that will be completed very soon, when the TV series
Las abogadas airs on TVE, a series that Patricia created and fought for during her last six years. She did so to return to the light the lives of the female labour lawyers that fought for democracy during the last years of Francoism and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
I was so lucky to love her and to share with her for more than three decades. I admired her deeply, as it can only be felt towards the loved ones, those who should never be forgotten.
Fernando Lara
DAY: Wednesday 6
th March
TIME: 18:30 p.m.
PLACE: Cine Albéniz, sala 2
