The Producers

Barbara is a Spanish journalist and filmmaker who lives in Taipei, Taiwan. Before she lived in London for 3 years and in New York for 13 years, where she worked as a regular contributor for the Spanish newspaper El País and as a freelance writer for El Confidencial, CTXT, El Estado Mental and other Spanish media. Her articles have also been featured on the LA Weekly, Vogue, Rolling Stone, GQ, and La Repubblica, among others. She specializes in arts and culture, but through her 16 year career she has covered all kind of news, from the 9/11 attacks to Hurricane Katrina to Occupy Wall Street. Surviving Amina is her first documentary, but she has extensive experience as a producer for film and tv. She has a MA in Journalism by UAM/El Pais and she teaches at Escuela de Periodismo El País in Madrid. She has four international Journalism awards.

Making The Film

“Little did I know that asking my friend Anne Lamuniere to shot her second child’s birth would take me on a three-year journey that many people live only in their own flesh, silently without any witness. Four months after Amina’s birth, the baby was rushed into the hospital. After her Leukemia diagnosis, Anne asked me to follow her family on camera. That’s how ‘Surviving Amina’ was born. But what it started as a movie which was going to focus on the ordeals of living with cancer, it took a much more intimate turn”.