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Spanish writer and filmmaker Josefina Molina has been announced as the 2012 Honorary Goya Award that the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences gives annually.

, was born in Cordoba in 1936.She graduated In Politics at Complutense University of Madrid but also was the first woman in Spain to get an Official Degree in Cinematography in 1969.

Spanish writer and filmmaker Josefina Molina will be the third woman in Goya´s history to obtain this award. She recognized that being her precedents "women so talented and wonderful I can only say that this is a great honor. The best of all is that I represent a generation of women filmmakers and it´s very well that we are awarded".

Función de noche is probably the best success in her cinematography. An adaptation from the novel Cinco Horas con Mario that she after directed on stage.

She developed a very successful carrier in Televisión Española. Everybody remembers her direction in programs such Estudio 1, Un globo,dos globos,tres globos or the series Teresa de Jesús. In 2003, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Spanish Television Academy.

Apart from directing films she has a very versatile carrier including theater, literature where she´s published four books among them La Lola se va a los Puertos, story that she took to the screen being this the last film she directed so far.

She is the Honorary President of Cinema Women Association (CIMA)

She will receive the Honorary Goya Award during the Nominees Gala due in Madrid, January 28th.

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