Pilar Miro; Award-Winning Spanish Director

Pilar Miro, 57, who won Spain’s Goya award this year as best director and helped televise the weddings of Spain’s two princesses. Miro forged new roads for women directors in Spain when she became the first to direct television dramas. Her last film, “El Perro del Hortelano,” received eight Goya Film Awards in 1997, including best director. A member of the Socialist Party from 1976-89, she was responsible for the party’s image in the pivotal 1982 general elections, the year her friend Felipe Gonzalez started his 14 years as Spain’s prime minister. In Madrid on Sunday of a heart ailment.