Two seasoned
archivists have moved to Toulouse to delve into the past and recover what is hidden behind the shadow and the legend of Pedro García León, one of many exiles who left Spain to end the civil war.
Maite Garcia and Luis E. Parés have created a blog that charts the course of this search.
"Letters to Mary" is a documentary project Maite Garcia and Luis E. Parés trying to recover the traces of Pedro García León, one among the hundreds of thousands of English who crossed the Pyrenees in 1939, however, Maite García's grandfather, the shadow and the legend that she was very familiar memory, the echo that has not stopped ever heard.
Pedro García León was born in Gérgal (Almeria) in 1899. In the twenties moved to Barcelona to work on the Universal Exhibition, where he joined the CNT and apparently became an important man in the union. In Barcelona witnessed the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1937 he accompanied his family (his wife and two children) Gérgal. On February 10, 1939 crossed the French border linking its fate to the hundreds of thousands of English. In France entered into numerous concentration camps and died in 1943 after Allied bombing in Bordeaux, barely a month after your release the last of the fields.
currently reside in Toulouse to perform research in archives and memorial museums. And for visiting the same places where he was hospitalized. We have opened a blog in which we will narrate the research, the quest, the findings, the disappointments:
hope accompany us in this trip.
Maite Garcia and Luis E. Parés
Maite Garcia (Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1973)
Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, specializing in Urban and Regional Planning. In Milan he studied Architectural Restoration and Conservation. Worked on the restoration of historic buildings and later in development projects and works.
Since autumn 2004, he worked in the audiovisual field, particularly in production: documentary ("In Jail") advertising (Eroski, L'Illa), films ("In the City of Sylvia", "The clowns i the Fuhrer" "Ingrid / Myspace). As a filmmaker, has made shorts, documentaries, and an audiovisual presentation for the Museum of Biodiversity Urdaibai (Vizcaya). In 2008 she presented her Masters in Creative Documentary at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is currently Director of Production for the International Festival of Video Art Loop
Luis E. Parés (Madrid, 1982)
studied Audiovisual Communication at Madrid and Lisbon and studied the Masters in Documentary Creation of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has been Assistant Director and documentary feature-length documentary THE HONOR OF THE INJURY, Carlos García-Alix and Production Assistant LAND UNDER A WINTER SUN PRO, Mercedes Alvarez, among others. In 2006 it produced, wrote and directed his first short film, DOLPHINS, funded by the Community of Madrid.
also collaborated with the magazines "Blogs and Docs", "Generation XXI" and "Etcetera." He has translated the anthology of Mario Cesariny "Ship of mirrors" and "cannibals" Alvaro do Carvalhal. In the She currently writes the blog celluloid rancid.
We also had the honor of reading at the Library Phantom tickets on Conchita Montenegro.
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