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'''Ventura Pons Sala''' ({{IPA-ca|bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns}}; born 25 July 1945, in [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia|Spain]]) is a [[Catalan people|Spanish]] movie [[Film director|director]]. |
'''Ventura Pons Sala''' ({{IPA-ca|bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns}}; born 25 July 1945, in [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia|Spain]]) is a [[Catalan people|Spanish]] movie [[Film director|director]].Ventura Pons has already 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. |
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He has been 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: Los Angeles, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Mexico among many others. |
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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. |
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Pons has also received international “life time achivement awards” in Chicago, Galway, Piestany, Lima, Torino, and Montpellier. |
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His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the [[Berlin International Film Festival]] for many consecutive years. |
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In Spain he has received the Catalan National Film Award, the Spain Fine Arts Gold Medal, the Catalan Sant Jordi Cross, the Catalan Film Academy Gaudi Honour Award, the Ondas Award, the City of Huesca Award, the Count Jaume d’Urgell 2018 Award, the Jordi Dauder Award, among many others. |
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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)''). |
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In 2012 the University of Colorado at Denver (USA) held an academic Conference on his cinema. Vervuert has published a book about this conference: Ventura Pons: An exceptional gaze from the Catalan cinema. |
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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. |
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He has published a book of memoirs Mine (and the others) (2011), and finished in 2017 another one I have tasted the fruits of the tree of life and also a World Tour diary, 54 days and a bit more (2012). |
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On Sept. 2014 he recovered in Barcelona the old Texas Cinemes, to normalize the exhibition of international cinema always subtitled in Catalan. Europa Cinemas awarded it as the best "cinema on the move" in 2016. |
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In March 2017 he opened the AlbaTexas Cinemas in Valencia and in February 2018 the Las Vegas cinemas in Figueres. |
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At the same time, he founded the distribution ccompany Albada Films to present the most interesting world-wide cinema that does not arrive to our screens. |
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==Filmography== |
==Filmography== |
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* 2018: Be Happy! |
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* 2018: Univers(o) Pecanins |
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* 2017: Miss Dalí |
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* 2017: Universal i Faraona (Universal and Pharaoh) |
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* 2016: Sabates Grosses (The bigger, the better) |
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* 2016: Oh, quina joia! (Oh, what a joy!) |
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* 2015: Cola, Colita, Colassa, (Ode to Barcelona) |
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* 2015: El virus de la por (Virus of fear) |
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*2013: ''Ignasi M.'' |
*2013: ''Ignasi M.'' |
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*2011: ''Year of Grace'' (Any de Gràcia) |
*2011: ''Year of Grace'' (Any de Gràcia) |
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Ventura Pons Sala (Catalan pronunciation: [bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns]; born 25 July 1945, in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish movie director.Ventura Pons has already 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.
He has been 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: Los Angeles, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Mexico among many others.
Pons has also received international “life time achivement awards” in Chicago, Galway, Piestany, Lima, Torino, and Montpellier.
In Spain he has received the Catalan National Film Award, the Spain Fine Arts Gold Medal, the Catalan Sant Jordi Cross, the Catalan Film Academy Gaudi Honour Award, the Ondas Award, the City of Huesca Award, the Count Jaume d’Urgell 2018 Award, the Jordi Dauder Award, among many others.
In 2012 the University of Colorado at Denver (USA) held an academic Conference on his cinema. Vervuert has published a book about this conference: Ventura Pons: An exceptional gaze from the Catalan cinema.
He has published a book of memoirs Mine (and the others) (2011), and finished in 2017 another one I have tasted the fruits of the tree of life and also a World Tour diary, 54 days and a bit more (2012).
On Sept. 2014 he recovered in Barcelona the old Texas Cinemes, to normalize the exhibition of international cinema always subtitled in Catalan. Europa Cinemas awarded it as the best "cinema on the move" in 2016.
In March 2017 he opened the AlbaTexas Cinemas in Valencia and in February 2018 the Las Vegas cinemas in Figueres.
At the same time, he founded the distribution ccompany Albada Films to present the most interesting world-wide cinema that does not arrive to our screens.
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