Blázquez Carretero, Elena2024-10-112024-10-112024-04Blázquez, E., (2024). Helena Lumbreras’s foundational filmmaking experience in Italy during the 1960s: An artistic biography. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 12, 155–172. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00216_12047-736810.1386/jicms_00216_1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108902Helena Lumbreras (1935–95), founder of the Colectivo de Cine de Clase in Francoist Spain, started her film career at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The politically charged atmosphere of 1960s Italy marked a turning point for the young filmmaker professionally and ideologically. Her Italian sojourn proved remarkably influential, since it allowed her to delve into cultural materials that were censored in Spain and drew her into left-wing intellectual circles. During these years (1962–70), she encountered film directors and theorists like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Cesare Zavattini, who deepened her interest in collective film movements. She took her first step towards politically engaged cinema with her graduation film, España (1964). In the following years, her deepening involvement with the anti-Francoist movement coincided with her prioritization of documentary over fiction. This veered her career away from representational political cinema towards militant political cinema, which she would eventually put into practice in her homeland.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article2047-7376https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00216_1https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jicms_00216_1embargoed access791.43654:007Centro Sperimentale di CinematografiaCesare ZavattiniColectivo de Cine de ClaseCollective cinemaFranco regimeMilitant cinemaPier Paolo PasoliniPolitical CinemaBellas ArtesHistoria del ArteCiencias de la InformaciónComunicación audiovisualCine (Ciencias de la Información)62 Ciencias de las Artes y las Letras6203.01 Cinematografía