Mercedes Odina | |
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| Born | 11 October 1959 Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | journalist, author, film director, cultural manager |
| Subject | Culture and international relations |
Mercedes Odina (born 11 October 1959) is a Spanish journalist, author, film director and culture manager.
Mercedes Odina has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. She began her career at Radio Miramar and in 1985 she joined the Information Services of the Spanish Television RTVE. Shortly after, she became part of the team of editors of Informe semanal. In 1989, she began her first film project as an author, director and screenwriter of the documentary series of 10 one-hour chapters Los años vividos (The Years We Lived)- a complete review of the 20th century in Spain based on the memory of 250 most outstanding Spanish personalities. The program was awarded with the Premios Ondas Internacional de Television in 1992. [1]
In 1991, she was appointed director of investigative journalism program Dossier 21 in RTVE, Spanish Television. This series consisted of 10 research documentaries with topics related to current events and the recent past. Some of the documentaries produced during this period, such as Objective: Kill Franco were broadcast by various foreign television channels and were exhibited in international festivals. [2] In 1995, she moved to New York as a correspondent of the Spanish Television RTVE. [3]
In 1997, she published her first book, America Sociedad Anonima, and until 2005 she combined work as a professor of Communication at the University Ramon Llull of Barcelona with writing and collaboration with several radio, television channels and newspapers. In April 2005, she was nominated as the Head of the Department of Communication, Marketing and Promotion of Expo 2008. [4] From 2008 to 2009, she was the Head of Culture at Canning House, the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council in London.
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