Eugenia of Patagonia is the story of a legendary woman in Chile, known as Dona Eugenia of Puerto Cisnes from the town she founded in remote Patagonia: a story of courage, built on ideals of service in the heart of wilderness. From the time she arrived in 1957 to when she died in March 2003, Eugenia Pirzio Biroli fought to defend the environment and the people of the vast region of which she was Mayor for thirty years. In our tormented age, her adventurous life shines like a light on the present and the future. It is a life of dreams come true. Her universal message speaks to young and old. The noted Italian writer Alberto Moravia, a classmate during her youth in Rome, wrote a poem to her entitled Daughter of Rain. Later, destiny would bring her to live at the end of the world in a land where ten feet of rain fall every year.

Festival International de Films de Femmes, Créteil, France, 2003
Valdivia Film Festival, Valdivia, Chile, 2004
Audience Award, Festival internazionale Cinema Donne, Torino, Italy, 2005
Avignon Film Festival, Avignon, France, 2005
Festival Internazionale Cinema e Donne, Firenze, 2006
Best Film, CIMAMERICHE, Film Festival della Migrazione, Riviera del Levante, Italy, 2009

Eugenia with her cat

New York Times
March 10, 1988