In 1935 she made her debut as director with El Gato Montés (The Wildcat), released in 1936, an adaptation of the Manuel Penella Moreno's operetta of the same name.
[3] After she moved back to Barcelona to direct her second feature film Molinos de viento in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, her career as a filmmaker more or less ended, and she was forced into exile in Italy.
[5] For Magí Crusells and Jordi Sebastian, back in Madrid, she run a restaurant and worked as a journalist under the pseudonym of Rizpay.
[6] For Martin-Márquez she instead got a job at the Casa Mabel, a fashion designer that produced costumes for the film industry and made Ana Mariscal's dresses.
[3] Ironically, Mariscal was the actress who, just a few years later, would take Rosario Pi's place as the sole woman filmmaker in Spain.