'''Gloria Montero''' (born 1933)<ref name="AO">{{cite web|title=Gloria Montero and David Fulton fonds|url=http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+4368?SESSIONSEARCH|website=Archives of Ontario|publisher=Province of Ontario|accessdate=7 August 2017}}</ref> is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She co-directed with David Fulton the documentaries "Years of Struggle" (1975), "The Horsemen" (1977), "The Cry of the Gull" (1977), and "Crisis in the Rain" (1981).
Montero was born to Spanish immigrants in Australia.<ref name="Woodcock">George Woodcock, “The Immigrants”, The Globe and Mail, 22 October 1977, 43.</ref> She lived in Toronto from 1955 to 1978.<ref name="AO" /> As of 1973, Montero was the Executive-secretary of the Canadian Committee for a Democratic Spain,<ref>Gloria Montero, “Spain (letter)”, The Globe and Mail, 4 September 1973.</ref> and as of 1975, its President.<ref>Gloria Montero, “Spain's real scandal is ultra-right terrorism, reader says (letter)”, The Globe and Mail, 10 January 1975.</ref> The organization opposed fascism in the country.
Her book ''The Immigrants'' (1977) included pieces of interviews with over 400 people, talking about their experiences.<ref name="Woodcock" /> The same year, she hosted a series for CBC Radio called ''The Music of Spain''. A second series, spanning 13 weeks, aired in 1980.<ref name="taste">Elina MacNiven, “A taste of Spain”, The Globe and Mail, 2 February 1980, F28.</ref>
Montero and David Fulton moved from Canada in 1978. As of 1980, they were known to have been living in the old quarter of Barcelona, Spain with their teenaged son, Miguel.<ref name="taste" /> Her daughter, actress Allegra Fulton, stayed in Canada.<ref name="taste" /> She would later star in her mother's one-woman show ''Frida K.'', about Frida Kahlo at the 1994 Fringe of Toronto Festival.<ref>H. J. Kirchroff, “Finding the diamonds among the gravel”, The Globe and Mail, 2 July 1994, C6.</ref> The production was ''The Globe and Mail'' critic's second favourite production that year.<ref>H. J. Kirchroff, “Dawn of a stunning spectacle”, The Globe and Mail, 6 July 1994, E3.</ref>
In 1980, she released the book ''We Stood Together'', a history of Canadian trade unions.<ref name="taste" /> She was working on a book about Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.<ref name="taste" />
The Archives of Ontario has preserved four of her documentary films in its holdings as the Gloria Montero and David Fulton fonds (F 4368, 1975-1984).<ref name="AO" />
As of 1980, she was known to be friends of pianist Jordi Sabates and Tete Montoliu.<ref name="taste" />
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