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- Isar Boya is a director from Spain who won best director at Goya Films and focuses on the Spanish migrant community in a documentary.
- The documentary features the story of Maria, a woman who left Spain for Edinburgh in Scotland to find a better life and adapt to new conditions.
- Isar Boya aims to capture real and rough moments of migrants instead of making everything look completely good.
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Okay. Hi, my name is Gabriel. It's nice to meet you. Can we tell you tell us about yourself? >> My name is Isar Boya. I am from Spain and uh I have won a lot of awards like best director at Goya Films and it is a pleasure to be here.
>> Wonderful. I just have a couple questions to ask you. What inspired you to focus the Spanish uh migrant community in the documentary? >> No. Well, it is an issue that has been uh very relevant in my country. A lot of people have been migrating to other places for more job opportunities and I felt that this movie was uh very important to make so people could see the reality a bunch of my people are
living through. uh especially in the story in my movie in Tier Raana Maria is a woman who left Spain to Edinburgh in Scotland and she uh goes in order to find a better life. She talks about the difficulties of being in a new country, new weather, new people and how hard it is to have to adapt to those conditions.
So you know this these these films I make are very essential for my well-being. So I could uh show the world what my people go through. >> Perfect. Wonderful. And how do you approach these personal stories with uh uh migrants addressing the broader economic state?
Well, uh, this film that was in 2008, my country of Spain was in a very bad economic state. And, um, could you repeat the question again? >> Uh, yeah. How do you approach capturing personal stories within migrants, especially within the economic state?
You know it is uh it is very uh uh tough to find these people sometimes but uh the way I capture it is I try to get it the most real picture as possible. No.
Uh I don't try and add like um like how do I explain this? I don't want to make it like a rain like a rainbow like all good and that all their lives are good. No, I want to get the the rough moments. For example, in the story of Daniel, who was a construction worker in Spain, he couldn't find work and then he moved to Scotland. And a lot of people would think that he would just from this moment find work and it will all work out. But it wasn't like that. It was
hard. He had to deal with the the in Scotland they have a thing. I forgot the name exactly, but it is essentially where you are not guaranteed zero hour. You are guaranteed zero hours at work, but you are always available 24 hours.
And this is tough because you never have time to go back home. You always have to be ready, but you're not in a short work. So, you know, that is the way I always try and capture my films. I get the most real images possible and uh yeah that is how I go about making these