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[[File:VenturaPons.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Director Ventura Pons at III [[Gaudí Awards]] (2011)]]
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'''Ventura Pons Sala''' ({{IPA-ca|bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns}}) (born 25 July 1945, in [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]]) is a [[Catalan people|Catalan]] movie [[Film director|director]].
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[[File:Ventura Pons amb el director del FICG, Iván Trujillo, el director de l'Institut Ramon Llull, Manuel Forcano, i el director de l'àrea Audiovisual de l'ICEC, Francisco Vargas.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Pons in 2016]]


'''Ventura Pons Sala''' ({{IPA-ca|bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns}}; 25 July 1945 – 8 January 2024) was a Spanish film director. He mainly directed films in [[Catalan language|Catalan]] but also in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[English language|English]]. Pons directed 32 feature films and is one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His films are continuously programmed in the most prestigious international festivals, almost 810 up to now, and distributed in many countries around the world.
After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, ''[[Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait|Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait]]'', which was officially selected by the 1978 [[Cannes Film Festival]]. With eighteen feature films, sixteen of which were produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S.A., founded in 1985, he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors.


==Life and career==
His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the [[Berlin International Film Festival]] for many consecutive years.
Pons was vice-president of the Spanish Film Academy and the subject of more than 34 international homages and retrospectives: London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), New York's Lincoln Center and in the world's foremost cinematheques, such as those in Los Angeles, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among many others.


Pons also received international "Lifetime Achievement Awards" at film festivals in [[Chicago Film Festival|Chicago]], [[Galway Film Fleadh|Galway]], [[International Film Festival Cinematik|Piešťany]], [[Elcine|Lima]], [[Torino Film Festival|Turin]], and [[Montpellier]].
He began his movie career making comedies about local customs (''The Vicary of Olot'' and ''What's your bet, Mari Pili?'', for example). Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like [[Quim Monzó]] (''What It's All About''), [[Josep Maria Benet i Jornet]] (''Actresses'', ''Amic/Amat''), [[Sergi Belbel]] (''Caresses'', ''To Die (or not))'', [[Lluís-Anton Baulenas]] (''Anita Takes a Chance'', ''Idiot Love''), [[Jordi Puntí]] (''Wounded animals''), [[Ferran Torrent]] (''Life on the edge'') and [[Lluïsa Cunillé]] (''Barcelona (a map)'').


In Spain, he received the Catalan National Film Award, the Spanish Fine Arts Gold Medal, the Catalan Sant Jordi Cross, the Catalan Film Academy's Gaudi Honorary Award, the [[Ondas Award]], the City of Huesca Award, the Count Jaume d’Urgell Award, and the Jordi Dauder Award, among many others.
In 1995 he was awarded the National Cinema Prize by the [[Generalitat de Catalunya|Government of Catalonia]], which also awarded him the [[Creu de Sant Jordi]] in 2007.

In 2012, the [[University of Colorado at Denver]] held an academic Conference on his cinema. Vervuert has published a book about this conference: ''Ventura Pons: An Exceptional Gaze from the Catalan Cinema''.

Pons published a book of memoirs, ''Mine (and the Others)'', written in 2011, and in 2017, he published ''I Have Tasted the Fruits of the Tree of Life''. He also published a world tour diary, entitled ''54 Days and a Bit More'' in 2012.

Pons died on 8 January 2024, at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 January 2024 |title=Muere Ventura Pons, el director que internacionalizó el cine catalán, a los 78 años |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/cine/20240108/9492057/muere-cineasta-ventura-pons-78-anos.html |access-date=8 January 2024 |website=La Vanguardia |language=es}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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* 2018: ''Be Happy!''
* 2018: ''Univers(o) Pecanins''
* 2017: ''Miss Dalí''
* 2017: ''Universal i Faraona'' ("Universal and Pharaoh")
* 2016: ''Sabates Grosses'' ("The Bigger, the Better")
* 2016: ''Oh, quina joia!'' ("Oh, What a Joy!")
* 2015: ''Cola, Colita, Colassa'' ("Ode to Barcelona")
* 2015: ''El virus de la por'' ("Virus of Fear")
*2013: ''Ignasi M.''
*2013: ''Ignasi M.''
*2011: ''Year of Grace'' (Any de Gràcia)
*2013: ''Un berenar a Ginebra''("An afternoon at Geneva")
*2010: ''A thousand morons (Mil cretins)''
*2011: ''Year of Grace'' ("Any de Gràcia")
*2010: ''A Thousand fools (Mil cretins)''
*2009: ''A la deriva''
*2009: ''A la deriva''
*2008: ''Strangers (Forasters)''
*2008: ''Strangers (Forasters)''
*2007: ''Barcelona (un mapa)''
*2007: ''Barcelona (un mapa)''
*2006: ''Life on the edge (La vida abismal)''
*2006: ''Life on the Edge (La vida abismal)''
*2005: ''Wounded animals (Animals ferits)''
*2005: ''Wounded Animals (Animals ferits)''
*2004: ''Idiot love (Amor idiota)''
*2004: ''Idiot Love (Amor idiota)''
*2002: ''El Gran Gato''
*2002: ''El Gran Gato''
*2001: ''[[Food of Love]] (Menja d'amor)''
*2001: ''[[Food of Love (2002 film)|Food of Love]] (Menja d'amor)''
*2000: ''Anita Takes a Chance (Anita no perd el tren)''
*2000: ''[[Anita Takes a Chance]] (Anita no perd el tren)''
*1999: ''To Die (Or Not) (Morir (o no))''
*1999: ''To Die (Or Not) (Morir (o no))''
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*1998: ''Beloved/Friend (Amic / Amat)''
*1998: ''[[Beloved/Friend]] (Amic / Amat)''
*1997: ''[[Caresses]] ([[Carícies]])''
*1997: ''Caresses ([[Carícies]])''
*1996: ''Actresses ([[Actrius]])''
*1996: ''Actresses ([[Actrius]])''
*1994: ''What It's All About (El perquè de tot plegat)''
*1994: ''What It's All About (El perquè de tot plegat)''
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*1989: ''Dammed Misery! (Puta misèria!)''
*1989: ''Dammed Misery! (Puta misèria!)''
*1986: ''The Blonde at the Bar (La rossa del bar)''
*1986: ''The Blonde at the Bar (La rossa del bar)''
*1981: ''The Vicary Of Olot (El vicari d'Olot)''
*1981: ''The Vicary of Olot (El vicari d'Olot)''
*1979: ''Informe sobre el FAGC''
*1979: ''Informe sobre el FAGC''
*1978: ''[[Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait]] (Ocaña, retrat intermitent)'',
*1978: ''[[Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait]] (Ocaña, retrat intermitent)'',
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== References ==
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==External links==
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Latest revision as of 15:06, 10 April 2024

Pons in 2016

Ventura Pons Sala (Catalan pronunciation: [bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns]; 25 July 1945 – 8 January 2024) was a Spanish film director. He mainly directed films in Catalan but also in Spanish and English. Pons directed 32 feature films and is one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His films are continuously programmed in the most prestigious international festivals, almost 810 up to now, and distributed in many countries around the world.

Life and career[edit]

Pons was vice-president of the Spanish Film Academy and the subject of more than 34 international homages and retrospectives: London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), New York's Lincoln Center and in the world's foremost cinematheques, such as those in Los Angeles, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among many others.

Pons also received international "Lifetime Achievement Awards" at film festivals in Chicago, Galway, Piešťany, Lima, Turin, and Montpellier.

In Spain, he received the Catalan National Film Award, the Spanish Fine Arts Gold Medal, the Catalan Sant Jordi Cross, the Catalan Film Academy's Gaudi Honorary Award, the Ondas Award, the City of Huesca Award, the Count Jaume d’Urgell Award, and the Jordi Dauder Award, among many others.

In 2012, the University of Colorado at Denver held an academic Conference on his cinema. Vervuert has published a book about this conference: Ventura Pons: An Exceptional Gaze from the Catalan Cinema.

Pons published a book of memoirs, Mine (and the Others), written in 2011, and in 2017, he published I Have Tasted the Fruits of the Tree of Life. He also published a world tour diary, entitled 54 Days and a Bit More in 2012.

Pons died on 8 January 2024, at the age of 78.[1]

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Muere Ventura Pons, el director que internacionalizó el cine catalán, a los 78 años". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.

External links[edit]

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