I started seeing people and places in a deeper way than words could express. When I first started making cinema, everything I knew and everything I liked connected together. I was frustrated because from being one of the best students in my class in Guatemala, I became “the girl who could not speak”. I was lucky enough to meet somebody here at the local film workshop who could see something in me and teach me how to use a video camera. Then cinema appeared, which is a global language and the only way to express yourself anywhere in the world. Your language and culture almost make you feel like you’re from another planet you start withdrawing inside your own feelings to communicate. When you are a foreigner in a new country, this is a completely new world, and you can’t communicate any more. Cineuropa: What drove you to enter this industry initially ?Įlisa Fernanda Pirir: I moved to Norway when I was a teenager and I could speak neither Norwegian nor English.
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