Pilar Miró studied Journalism and Law, also graduating from the Official Film School, where she also became a teacher. She worked at TVE since 1960 as an editorial assistant and as a filmmaker. It has sometimes been shown that her work as a filmmaker during the second half of the 1970s made her a precursor to the introduction of democratic and progressive values in her work for television, especially in the episodes for which she was responsible for the Curro Jiménez and Los Libros series. From the small screen she jumped into the world of cinema writing and directing several films. In 1982 she held the position of Director General of Cinematography until 1985, a position from which she promoted a structural change in Spanish cinematographic creation that, in exchange for an increase in quality, had a negative impact on the quantity of films produced. From this responsibility, she played a decisive role in the recovery of category A of the FIAPF by the San Sebastián International Film Festival, to which she diverted a large part of the state subsidies directed to other Spanish film festivals. In 1985 she went back to the cinema industry directing Werther. In 1986 she returned to a political position directing the Spanish Radio and Television Entity until 1989, managing to inaugurate the legendary Buñuel Studios in 1988. Throughout her career she won numerous awards for films such as El Perro del Hortelano, which won seven Goya awards, including Best direction and also with feature films such as The Crime of Cuenca, Beltenebros or El pájaro de la felicidad. The same year of her death, 1997, she directed the play El anzuelo de Fenisa, by Lope de Vega.
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