The countdown to the premiere of the documentary with which TVE will pay tribute to Maria Teresa Campos is about to end. The public channel has announced This Wednesday, September 4th, at 10:50 p.m.this special about the figure of the pioneering journalist in our country, which, in addition, coincidentally coincides with the first anniversary of her death (September 5).
‘María Teresa Campos, in her own way’ will have as rivals the premieres of ‘López and Leal against the channel’ and ‘The weakest rival’ on, respectively, Antena 3 and Telecinco, apart from the bets of Cuatro and laSexta, which, for the moment, are unknown.
The production includes previously unpublished material and the testimony of, among others, his daughters. Terelu Campos and Carmen Borrego, and their granddaughters Alejandra Rubio and Carmen Almoguera. But also that of colleagues like The film stars Ramon Colom, Iñaki Gabilondo, Luis del Olmo, Xavier Sarda, Toñi Moreno, Juan Ramon Lucas, Elvira Lindo, Pepa Bueno, Ana Rosa Quintana, Paolo Vasile, and the journalist specialized in television, Borja Teranthus highlighting her successes and professional contributions. A committed, brave and tenacious woman, who never gave up on her iron will to reinvent herself. Not even when the lights on the set went out for her.
‘Maria Teresa Campos, in her own way’, produced by Cuarzo Producciones for RTVE and directed by Carmen Borrego and Ricardo Pardohas located in private archives some of her first appearances on Radio Juventud when she was still Mari Tere, a popular presenter in Malaga. The documentary will show previously unpublished family photos that reveal an intimate María Teresa at different stages of her life, surrounded by her family, partners and friends.
Her closest circle addresses some of the hardest events experienced by the presenter: threats from Fuerza Nueva, the decision to leave her family in Malaga and move to Madrid, her husband’s suicide and her own illness. In contrast to her image of strength, the testimonies help to understand the vulnerability of the woman who made risky decisions, many of them against the current, to achieve the position she aspired to in the media.
His Arrival in Madrid in 1981 As the news director of Radio Cadena, she broke glass ceilings. “She was very sure of her worth. That, for a mature woman, in the early eighties, in such a hyper-masculinized world, was a very rare thing,” recalls the writer Elvira Lindo, who worked with her.
Madrid also allowed her to experience a new stage in her life. “In Malaga she had her job, her daughters, her family, and here she began to see that there was another life, that women could go out at night, that they could flirt and do with their lives what they really wanted,” recalls her daughter Carmen Borrego.
Distinguished with two Ondas Awards, three Golden Antennas, two Golden TPs, the Golden Microphone, the Clara Campoamor, the Medal for Merit in Work, posthumously, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.laid the foundation for many of the programs that are made today,” according to Carlo Boserman, producer and representative of Maria Teresa for many years.
The Malaga-born communicator incorporated political debates into the morning magazine, a space “that ended up being the most watched,” says Borja Terán. Although, in the words of Pepa Bueno, “she had the authority of opinion,” her critics considered that she made television for gossips. “Each stage has a qualifier to disparage the work of women,” adds the director of El País.
His career was not without moments of bitterness. “My mother was at an advanced age and she It worries them that they won’t count on her again“I wasn’t prepared for the loneliness, the isolation, for the phone to stop ringing. I wasn’t prepared to stop feeling loved,” says Yusan Acha, the program’s director.
‘María Teresa Campos, in her own way’ underlines her legacy as a professional, woman and matriarch. “We will not find another María Teresa who has the warmth and fervour of the citizens who listened to the radio and then saw her on television” says Luis del Olmo, while Iñaki Gabilondo defines her as “a professional who was deeply in love with her work and with an absolute awareness that the spectator existed; that, with a permanently social spirit”. “She did not allow herself to be corseted, which means that we are before a being who had an important sense of freedom and that means a lot to women”, says Carmen Calvo, current president of the Council of State.
