BarcelonaFilm Commission

This month we interview Josep Cunill,author of the book 'Elena Jordi. Una reina berguedana en la cort del Paral·lel'. He has spent over 22 years researching and vindicating the figure of Elena Jordi, the first female Spanish film director with the film 'Thais' in 1918.

Led by Sílvia Abril, this program of La 2 Catalunya takes a tour of the Catalan towns to rescue from oblivion all those traditional recipes that have given identity to the villages of Catalonia.

The Catalan Academy of Cinematography has decided to vindicate the figure of Montserrat Casals i Baqué. She was known as Elena Jordi, the vaudeville star and theater entrepreneur who became the first film director in the entire state to direct, produce, and star between 1917 and 1918 the film Thaïs. Unfortunately, the copies are lost.

This BBC series is the touching and hilarious story of the Petersen's on vacation in Europe. They visit Barcelona.