Margarita Ledo Andión is an essential figure of Galician culture, she is a filmmaker, writer and professor of audiovisual communication at the University of Santiago de Compostela (where she was also Dean). She published her first book, "Parolar cun eu, cun intre, cun inseuto", a collection of poems, in 1970, which was followed by other books of poetry, narrative, essays and research. She founded and directed several publications with a special emphasis on the vindication of the Galician language and its militant spirit. Her first feature film is Santa Liberdade (2004), followed by Liste (2007), and the fiction film A cicatriz branca (2012), derived from her novel "Porta Blindada". She also directed several experimental and documentary short pieces. In 2017 the DocumentaMadrid International Film Festival dedicated a retrospective to the artist. She was awarded the National Prize of Galician Culture 2008 in Cinema and Audiovisual, as well as the Otero Pedrayo in 2017, besides being a member of the Royal Galician Academy.
Festival de Cine de Sevilla
