Josefina Molina (born 14 November 1936) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Her 1989 film Esquilache was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Her film Teresa de Jesús won several awards, including the Antena de Oro (1984), and the TP de Oro (1985, Best National Series).
Born in Córdoba, Andalusia in 1936, she studied Political Science and in 1962 she funded an experimental theater group in his native city directing a numbers of plays. By 1968 she had begun directing her first television documentaries for the series Aqui España (Here, Spain). During the period of her apprenticeship in television, Molina also pursued studies at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (EOC), completing her degree in 1969 as the first woman in the history of the film school to receive a degree in film direction.
Molina first feature length film was Vera, un cuento cruel (1973) (Vera, a cruel story), a Gothic horror story. She continued to work on television directing more than forty dramatic programs for state television. At the same time she worked on the theater directing a stage adaptation of Cinco Horas con Mario (Five hours with Mario) (1979) adapted from a popular novel written
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