The agonising and the divine. Writing cinema from literature

The event will be presented as a cineforum, i.e. a screening of the two short films Cuentas divinas (nominated for the 38th Goya Awards, Eulàlia Ramon, 2022) and Agonía (Eulàlia Ramon, 2024), followed by a conversation with the writer of both screenplays with Juan Muñoz (Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies). This conversation will provide a brief overview of the author's literary work - in 2025 it will be 25 years since the publication of her first book, Essays on an Incomplete Character - and how it has ended up leading her to the cinema. She will talk about the themes common to all her narrative arc and how audiovisuals and literature can be communicating vessels when it comes to questioning the receiver about social concerns, feminism, black humour, historical recovery, friendship between women, the LGTBIQ+ collective, the unusual, the obscure, pop culture and classical culture, etc... Maria Zaragoza is a writer of novels, short stories, comics, illustrated books and sound fiction with a career that includes awards such as the Azorín prize for novels and the Margarita Xirgu prize for radio theatre from RNE. His works have been translated into several languages, and his story Realidades de humo has been adapted for the cinema in Mexico. She began her career as a scriptwriter with Cuentas divinas, a short film that was nominated for the 38th Goya Awards in the category of best fiction short film and for which she won the award for best script at the last Luna de Cortos Festival. She is currently immersed in various film projects and in the creation of her own production company, as well as in her work as a teacher at The Core school.