[1] Romarina Massardi was born in Virle Treponti [it], a town near Brescia, the daughter of an Italian marble worker who moved the family to Montevideo to work on the construction of the Legislative Palace.
In 1934 she traveled to the United States, recorded her trip with a 16 mm camera, and conceived the project of writing a script and making a film.
Created, directed, interpreted, and produced by Rina, it premiered in Montevideo in August 1938 without great public success.
[1][3] The protagonist Eva Lauri, played by Massardi, travels to the capital with aspirations to become a lyric singer, and thanks to her faith she succeeds.
In 2013, the Uruguayan visual artist Inés Olmedo [es] published her research on the life and work of the artist, and held exhibitions under the title Rina, la primera, contributing to the legitimization of Rina Massardi as the first Uruguayan woman filmmaker and the glorification and knowledge of her work.