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Director Josefina Molina, Pioneer and Referent of Spanish Cinema, Dies at the Age of 89

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In 2006 she founded the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) and in 2012 she was the first woman to obtain the Goya of Honor by the Film Academy. More information: The French philosopher Edgar Morin, creator of the theory of complex thought dies at 104 years old.

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In 2006 she founded the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) and in 2012 she was the first woman to obtain the Goya of Honor by the Film Academy. More information: The French philosopher Edgar Morin, creator of the theory of complex thought dies at 104 years old.

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Josefina Molina (Córdoba, 1936), director of works such as Función de noche, Esquilache or the Teresa de Jesús series, devoted much of her life to demonstrating that the look of women was not an exception in the history of cinema, but an indispensable part of it. Pioneer of Spanish audiovisual, the first woman to graduate in Management by the Official Film School and the first filmmaker to receive the Goya de Honor, turned each project into a cl…

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Josefina Molina, director of Cordobesa cinema, recognized with a Goya de Honor in 2012, died in Madrid on May 30 at the age of 89, according to a statement from the Academy of Cinema. She was one of the pioneer women of Spanish cinema and one of the few of her generation who managed to dedicate herself professionally to management. Her mission was always clear: that women felt represented. From film management, theatre, script and even productio…

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The Cordobesa filmmaker, Goya de Honor in 2012 and pioneer of the seventh art in Spain, has died in Madrid. She was one of the founders of CIMA.

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Writer, screenwriter, film and theatre director, television director and very active social and professional personality in the participation of women in Spanish cultural life in the second half of the 20th century, Josefina Molina was the first woman to graduate from the Official Film School and is part of this kind of pioneer triumvirate together with Ana Mariscal and Pilar Miró. Josefina Molina opened a semi-closed door to the avalanche that …

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The director, screenwriter and filmmaker Josefina Molina, one of the most influential and revolutionary figures of contemporary Spanish culture, died this Saturday, after a long illness, in Madrid at the age of 89. Considered a pioneer in the struggle for the presence of the women behind the cameras, Josefina Molina, along with Pilar Miró and Cecilia Bartolomé, opened a historic path and became not only a reference for the next generations of di…

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El Confidencial broke the news in Spain on Saturday, May 30, 2026.
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