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Romnia. Roma women from Huesca

Pablo Vega | Romnia. Roma women from Huesca | Non Fiction | Spain | 2010 | fil_00276

Rights held by: Pablo Vega | Licensed by: Pablo Vega | Licensed under: Rights of Use | Provided by: Pablo Vega – Private Archive

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Rights held by: Pablo Vega | Licensed by: Pablo Vega | Licensed under: Rights of Use | Provided by: Pablo Vega – Private Archive

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Romnia. Roma women from Huesca
747 min
fil_00276
Pablo Vega | Romnia. Roma women from Huesca | Non Fiction | Spain | 2010 | fil_00276
Rights held by: Pablo Vega | Licensed by: Pablo Vega | Licensed under: Rights of Use | Provided by: Pablo Vega – Private Archive

Synopsis

‘It is obvious that this film has been made by a professional filmmaker and presents positive human values.’

Galya Stoyanova

Synopsis

Romnia: Roma Women from Huesca (Romnia: Roma Women from Huesca) is a documentary film on a Roma community, specifically women in north-eastern Spain, made by Pablo Vega, a film director who is receiving increasing acclaim. Transparency and clarity are the common denominators in this project. Vega makes himself visible in front of the camera and introduces himself as Roma, thus becoming another subject appearing in the documentary as well as its director and producer. This conscious act endows the documentary with a more human angle. He recognises the important yet difficult path to self-representation and therefore clarifies the goal of the project as well as its primary intended audience: ‘This documentary is aimed at those Roma who are lost in the meaning of this term’. As Vega explains, he was approached by the Fundación Secretariado Gitano to shoot this documentary in order to highlight the situation of Roma women who break with the stereotype, and therefore widen the horizons of the dominant white community’s perception.

The film also aims to visualise the discriminatory practices Romani communities suffer in everyday life. The protagonists of the documentary, Vanesa, a shop assistant, Pitu, a recent education graduate, Sara, a lawyer and regional coordinator at the Foundation and Adelina, the first Roma teacher to be awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of Work. They successfully reflect the modern-day struggle to demonstrate the fallacy of stereotyping and underline the success Roma women achieve.

Combining interviews with the women and their parents, both at home and in the workplace (shop or office), the director manages to create a professional profile of his actors without forgetting the intimacy provided by a familiar environment and the insights of family members. The insistence on the need for training is repeated over and over again from the mouths of the different interviewees, who stress that the Roma identity should not be at odds with having an education.

The documentary was shown at the film festival ‘O Dikhipen, Roma in Film’, organised by the Spanish Film Archive in 2010.

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Romnia. Roma women from Huesca
747 min
fil_00276
Pablo Vega | Romnia. Roma women from Huesca | Non Fiction | Spain | 2010 | fil_00276
Rights held by: Pablo Vega | Licensed by: Pablo Vega | Licensed under: Rights of Use | Provided by: Pablo Vega – Private Archive

Details

original title
Romnia. Mujeres gitanas de Huesca
Country
Production
2010
Credits
Production Company
Type
audiovisual
Category
Non Fiction
Record Type
single object
Object Number
fil_00276
Manifestations
Object number
fil_00276_m1
Type
Internet
Media items
Object number
fil_00276_m1_i1
Language
Colour
Colour
Running Time
747 min
Dimensions
600.8 MB
Video
1920 x 1080 / H.264

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