In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of women left Galicia for America alone. Many of them were illegal, with documents that forged their age and even their identity. They were intended to enter domestic service. Self-esteem learning by filming the word is the backdrop for the documentary that we have called
Notes for a film, where every fragment, every trifling emotion, the expression of calm or the emergence of the simmering pain build an atmosphere of eternal present. Notes for a film gathers testimonies of those who give rise to characters from the fictional film White scar.
- Runtime
48’ - Locations
Buenos Aires, Galicia - Year
2012 - Written and directed by
Margarita Ledo Andión - Camera operators
Pedro Cayuela
& Margarita Ledo Andión - Editors
Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro
& Silvia Roca - Music
Abe Rábade - Special guest
Eva Veiga
& Fernando Naval - Aerialist
Raquel Oitavén
Mercè Solé
Raquel Veganzones
- With
María Visita Turner
Carmen Román
Patricia Alonso
Gabriela Sande
Segunda Rivas
Rosa Buján
Concepción Redondo
Amparo González
Carmen Rial
Ramona Moreira
Rosa González
María Fernández
Amalia Rivadomar
María Rosa Iglesias
Micaela Fernández Darriba
Clotilde Iglesias
María Isabel Varela
Débora Campos
& Manuel Berlanga - Records
Cándida, de L. Bayón Herreros;
Colonos Galegos de Luis Seoane - Songs
María Visita Turner
& Carmen Román - Drawing
Isaac Díaz Pardo
- A film by
Nós Productora Cinemátográfica Galega S.L.
and MLA
- Sponsor
- Xunta de Galicia - Secretaría Xeral de Emigración
- Xunta de Galicia - Secretaría Xeral de Igualdade
- Unión Europea - Fondo Social Europeo