A Brief History of Galician Cinema
Films and cinema can help us understand historical, political and artistic processes in their countries of origin and those of their directors.
We will examine all this and more in the new online seminar from the Instituto Cervantes in Leeds A Brief History of Galician Cinema, which will be given by the Galician film specialist, lecturer and researcher at the University of Leeds, María Seijo-Richart.
In these online seminar, consisting of four sessions, attendees will review more than 120 years of the History of Galician cinema, from practically the origins of the cinematography to its current moment of flourishing, where several Galician filmmakers are obtaining international critical and public recognition. In between, the period of obscurantism during Franco's dictatorship and the policies of developing regional cinemas in the Transition will be discussed.
Programme
- Session 1 (16th June 2020): Origins of Galician cinema: the work of José Sellier.
- Session 2 (23rd June 2020): Cinema during the Dictatorship: "la gallegada".
- Session 3 (30th June, 2020): Galician cinema in the early years of democracy: policies of cinemas of the small nations.
- Session 4 (7th July 2020): The present: International Galician cinema and Novo Cinema Galego.
About the seminar tutor, María Seijo-Richart
María Seijo-Richart obtained her PhD in English Philology (specialty in Film Adaptation) from the Universidade da Coruña in 2014. She also has a Masters in World Cinema from the University of Leeds, where she currently works. She has taught audiovisual adaptation seminars (film, television and video games) at Leeds Beckett University. Her research interests are the audiovisual adaptations of one culture to another and cinema in minority languages (specifically the Galician audiovisual sector). She has published several articles and presented lectures at different Universities in the United Kingdom and Spain.
