Late Francoism and the first years of democracy were crossed by a countercultural current that made punk one of its symbols. Today, three decades after those mohawks and skintight pants, the counterculture is represented by a group of women “who clash with today’s society over something as natural as being mothers of several children,” says the director and founder of Gospa. García, who is preparing a documentary film entitled Mother there is only one, in which he presents a series of testimonies from women whom he himself defines as anti-system mothers. A word – he admits – that “has a bad press. Can you imagine a guy who hasn’t showered burning containers.’ The problem is that “right now the system is telling you that in order to be happy, responsible and not ruin your professional career, you have to postpone motherhood for as long as possible – by freezing your eggs, for example – or even cancel it,” she says. the director.
The film Gospa Arts demolishes all this topic by showing the daily life of several women who are mothers and who, moreover, have been successful in life. «Of the six protagonists, one is a doctor of Philology and teaches at the university, another is influencer and entrepreneur, another is the director of human resources of a very large bank… In short, it’s not that they were mothers of four, five or six children because they are imbeciles. Also, I think their life choice, to be mothers, was precisely because they are very intelligent,” she points out.
The project “was born during a conversation in which my spiritual director spoke to me about the importance of giving visibility to a well-understood motherhood”, García openly confesses. However, Mother there is only oneAbove all, talk about the Virgin Mary. «The idea is this: what we want is to present the figure of the Virgin and her motherhood to all those children of hers who do not know her. But for this we do not use theology, but the testimony of a group of women and mothers. They explain what it means to be a mother, first, and what it means to be a daughter, then, and all have in common the love for Mary.
A task, according to the director, more important than ever “given the so great projection that women have in today’s world” and, at the same time, “with the so strange projection that they want to give it from a harsh and radical feminism in which many they don’t feel identified even as a joke”. To do so, however, Mother there is only one I need help. “Right now we still have some shooting left, half of the editing and all of the post-production and distribution phase. And we ask for money through the web gospaarts.org/motherthroughout this distribution phase, which is very important, because what we want is to reach as many hearts as possible,” concludes Jesús García.
free behind bars
In the same situation is the project freeof Bosco Films and Variopinto, which started a fund-raising — platinumcrowdfunding.com/libres/3585— to finance the distribution of this documentary film which delves into the contemplative life and which has achieved an unusual feat: “It is the first time that a camera has managed to enter twelve convents and monasteries”, explains Lucía González-Barandiarán, director of Bosco Films, which talks about the legendary film on the contemplative life, the great silenceso that people realize the greatness of free. “The promoters of the project spent 30 years asking for permission to register it until, finally, the Carthusians said yes.” In this case, the director of the film, Santos Blanco, was able to enter convents that had previously said no to the BBC or National Geographic.
The project came to light during the pandemic, when we were all indoors. A mutual friend of the heads of Bosco and Variopinto sounded the alarm: “he told us that the monasteries needed help. “They never call to ask about something because they always think the person across the street might need it more and if they call now, things are very bad,” he told us. They got to work and created the campaign to collect donations Your closure, my closure. “From there we began collaborating and dreaming together of the possibility of making a film about the contemplative life,” recalls González-Barandiarán.
The dream is coming true and free It will hit the big screen in 2023. “It originally had another name, but reviewing the recorded contents we realized that libres was one of the most repeated words by all of us we interviewed within the closure,” which is still true paradoxical in some people who have not left the four walls of their convent. “They have found their freedom in something that for mere mortals is prison. They have an inner freedom, and that’s what we will show, truly free people”, concludes the director of Bosco Films.
