Rosario Pi

Rosario Pi
Rosario Pi
Born	Rosario Pi Brujas; 1899; Barcelona, Spain
Died	1967; Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Rosario Pi was a Catalan film director, actress, and screenwriter. With the release of her 1936 film The Wildcat, she became one of Spain's first female directors; she also directed 1938's Molinas de Viento.[1][2]

Biography

Rosario was born in Barcelona in 1899 into a family that owned a textile factory in Sabadell. She walked with a limp from a young age (likely due to polio, according to historians).[3]

As a young woman, she forged a path for herself as an entrepreneur, starting her own lingerie business. When her business failed in 1929, she entered the fledgling film industry, forming a production company called Star Films. The first film she directed was 1936's El Gato Montes, an adaptation of the Manuel Penella Moreno's operetta of the same name.[3] Sadly, after she directed 1938's windmills, her career as a filmmaker more or less ended with the start of the Spanish Civil War, at which point she was forced into exile in Italy.[2]

Selected filmography

Molinas de Viento (1938)
El Gato Montes (1936)
Doce Hombres y Una Mujer (1934)

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References

"Rosario Pi Brujas | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
Virino, Concepción Cascajosa (2015). A New Gaze: Women Creators of Film and Television in Democratic Spain. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443883986.
Martin-Márquez, Susan; Martin-Marquez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Susan (1999). Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198159797.

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[1] "Rosario Pi Brujas | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2019-03-28.

[:0-2] Virino, Concepción Cascajosa (2015). A New Gaze: Women Creators of Film and Television in Democratic Spain. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443883986.

[:1-3] Martin-Márquez, Susan; Martin-Marquez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Susan (1999). Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198159797.