Documentary, 1995
by Giovanna Ribes

FESTIVALS
Shown at: Casa de América (1995), Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (1995), Centro Cultural Iberoamericano (1996), Santiago de Chile y Vicuña (1995, 1996, 1997), Universidad de Granada (1996), Jornadas Amerindias de la Universidad de Valencia(1998)
Official selection at: FESTIVAL DE CINE IBEROAMERICANO, FESTIVAL DE LA HABANA (1998), FESTIVAL DE MONTEVIDEO (1998), FESTIVAL DE MUNICH, ALEMANIA (1996)

Synopsis
Gabriela Mistral, the great Chilean poet, was the first Hispanic woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. An important recognition not only to her poetic but social and pedagogical work: Club of ladies to reform the social mores and emancipate women, Director of the Liceo of Ladies of Punta Arenas, collaborator in the reorganization of rural education in Mexico and Consul in Madrid at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, in Guatemala, Brazil, Italy, etc and an active part in the political life of their country until 1957, when she died in New York.

TECHNICAL SPECS

• Title: All were going to be Queens
• Genre: Documentary
• Nationality: Spanish
• Language: Spanish
• Running time: 55min
• Shooting format: Betacam SP
• Delivery format: Betacam SP
• Ratio: 4:3
• Colour: Colour, B/W
• Sound: Stereo CREW
• Directed by Giovanna Ribes
• Written by Alicia Martínez and Giovanna Ribes
• Voice Over: Gemma Cuervo, Rafa Higón, Rosa Arlandis
• DoP:Javier Quintanilla
• Music: Ángel Parra, Raúl Nacher, Jaime Soto, El Barroco Andino
• Editor: Manolo Calvo (Nisa)
• Associate producer and sound Brendan Geraghty
• Executive producers: Enrique Pallás and Giovanna Ribes
• Sponsored by Pro- Chile