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Director Sabrina Blanco on Malaga Fest Double Winner ‘La Botera’
Ed Meza @edmezavarIn “La Botera” (“Boat Rower Girl”), which plays at the Malaga Spanish Screenings, Argentine filmmaker Sabrina Blanco tells the story of Tati, a teenage girl growing up in Isla Maciel, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires situated along the banks of a polluted river, where she lives with a neglectful and troubled single father.Angered when her father, a local boatsman who ferries passengers across the river, decides to sell his boat, Tati sets out to learn how to row, and comes of age in the process.“The idea arose in 2014 as a result of personal concerns, and my own experiences from social activism, which led me to reflect on the difficulties of growing up for women in low-income class contexts — a topic