The Cine Albéniz hosted this Wednesday the screening of a documentary about Palma-Palmilla : 'Everything I learned. Stories about education in Palma Palmilla' . The film addresses the lives of 10 natural people from the neighborhood, the pride they feel for the place where they have grown up and the difficulties they have had to face for that very reason. The production is borne by La madre de los Beatles and Mucho Ojo and is part of the Palma-Palmilla Proyecto Hogar Community Plan.
Students from various centers in the neighborhood attended the presentation, including those of Doctor Gálvez Moll, Misioneras Cruzadas de la Iglesia, Manuel Altolaguirre, Moreno Vila and Los Ángeles. Virginia Arjona , director of CEIP Gálvez Moll pointed out that the students came "very excited to see these benchmarks of successful people, especially personally, who have managed to have a stable life and work success." The mayor of the Social Rights area also attended the event, indicating that the objective of the project is "to show the other Palma-Palmilla that exist.
Neighborhood scent
The work began with the image of those striped towers that rise up throughout the neighbourhood, with references to the 'lifelong' games that are still present in Palma-Palmilla, such as spinning top and elastic. A preamble to the story of 10 people who understand that the solution to deal with prejudices and stigmatization in the neighborhood is not to run away from them, but to bring them to light and face them. A pride that could be seen in the room when the students started to applaud when they saw their school reflected on the big screen .
Virginia Arjona, Director of CEIP Doctor Gálvez Moll
Virginia Arjona, Director of CEIP Doctor Gálvez Moll PABLO ROSALES
Equal opportunities
Along the same lines, the director of the CEIP Doctor Gálvez Moll, Virginia Arjona , pointed out, making an appeal to the City Council: "they have an added difficulty, it is the public institutions that have to improve, the greater the difficulty, the more economic and personal resources we must have so that our children have the same opportunities as in another neighborhood" .
"I don't have baskets, I don't have goals, I have facilities where it's very difficult for great athletes to be born ," continued the director .
Among the protagonists of the work is Alicia Gutiérrez, a physiotherapist of Palmillo origin who hopes to inspire those like her and give them a different perspective, "so that they see that there is not only a microclimate that can be breathed in the neighborhood, but also that it can be advance, you can evolve, you can fight no matter where you are born".
Many of the protagonists, such as Antonio Pedraza, a businessman raised in the neighborhood, or Toñi Vigo, a teacher at the Misioneras Cruzadas College of the Church, pointed to a feeling of otherness shared by everyone in the neighborhood regardless of their country, religion, or economic capacity.
Cristina Rosón y Jorge Agó, productores y directores del documental
Cristina Rosón and Jorge Agó, producers and directors of the documentary PABLO ROSALES
an open neighborhood
A neighborhood that received the recording of the documentary with open arms, "We have found a brutal rapprochement on the part of the neighborhood, each neighbor has a story to tell" , affirmed the director of the documentary Jorge Agó . It is this depth that led the project to change its approach. At first it was planned to make short videos oriented to social networks, but it soon became something more. "When we started recording it, we realized that there was much more history than what we were seeing," added the producer of the documentary, Cristina Rosón.
Agó is aware that the stigma attached to the neighborhood would persist, but he is confident that the documentary will reach as many students in the neighborhood as possible and that it will serve as "a tool for all those children to see a way out that they can get by studying. " .
Regardless of the stigma, all the protagonists of the documentary carried their neighborhood as their flag, a feeling that has crystallized in the words of Alicia Gutiérrez: "Palma-palmillera, of blood and of home" , sentenced at the end of the work before the students started a long standing ovation
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