18 Facts About Josefina Molina

Josefina Molina Reig MMT was born on in Cordoba, 14 November 1936 and is a Spanish feature film director, screenwriter, TV producer and scene director.

Josefina Molina was one of the first female directors in Spain and is known for directing such notable feature films as Funcion de noche and Esquilache, as well as the television series Teresa de Jesus.

Josefina Molina was born in 1936 in Cordoba, Spain, in to a middle-class family.

Josefina Molina's father was a Cordovan shopkeeper who traded in shoes and drugstore products.

Josefina Molina's mother was a Catalan woman in charge of the housework and child care.

Thanks to her parents stable financial situation, little Josefina was able to attend prestigious schools in Cordoba such as Hermanos de la Salle, where she was taught how to write and basic mathematics or Escolapias de Santa Victoria, where she finished high school.

Josefina Molina finished high school in 1969 and had the possibility to access Baccalaureate because her family belonged to the merchant class.

However, it was not until she was fifteen years old when Josefina Molina saw the movie El rio by Jean Renoir, that her keen interest in telling stories through films awoke.

Josefina Molina regularly attended projections and discussions organized by the Cineclub Senda and Cineclub del Circulo de la Amistad.

Josefina Molina attended the Circulo Juan XXIII, the gathering place for the most progressive Cordovan youth in Francoist Spain.

Josefina Molina managed to release four stagings and, at the same time, she reached out to different important local showbiz and media figures.

Josefina Molina studied political science and in 1962 she founded the theatre group Teatro de Ensayo Medea in her hometown and led several productions.

Josefina Molina's most renowned television series are: El Camino which tells the story of Daniel, an 11-year-old boy called el Mochuelo, who has been enrolled at school in the city and therefore has to leave the village where he has grown up.

Josefina Molina directs theatre, achieving great success with Cinco Horas con Mario, a monologue which has been represented for decades.

When she decided not to do any more movies, Josefina Molina began to write because, as she said, 'if I did not, I would be very bored.

Josefina Molina described it as: "the story of my generation in Andalucia, how girls are educated and how I was brought up".

Josefina Molina wrote the foreword of Ana Mariscal, una Cineasta Pionera, written by Victoria Fonseca.

Josefina Molina's feminism is well known and, in fact, she wrote the book Cine de mujeres en la Transicion, La trilogia feminista with Cecilia Bartolome and Pilar Miro.