Isabel Coixet

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Isabel Coixet, 2017

Isabel Coixet (born April 9, 1960 in Barcelona , Catalonia region , Spain ) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter who initially worked successfully in the advertising industry and lives in Catalonia.

Life

Coixet grew up in a communist family under the Franco regime. She studied history with a focus on contemporary history at the University of Barcelona .

At 19 she was already working as a copywriter. She later became creative director and commercial director at the advertising agency JWT and founded the creative agency Target and the production companies Edie Saeta and Miss Wasabi Films . She also wrote for the Spanish film magazine Fotogramas .

She has also won numerous awards for her advertising work; Her customers included the BT Group , Ford , Danone , BMW , Ikea , Evax, Renault , Peugeot , Winston , Kronenbourg , Pepsi , Kellogg’s , MCI, Helene Curtis, Procter & Gamble and AT&T .

In 2004 her autobiographical essays La vida es un guión (Life is a screenplay) were published in Spain .

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She made her feature film debut in 1989 with Demasiado viejo para morir joven , for which she also wrote the screenplay. Her next film came out in 1996 with What I've never told you before . The award-winning drama starred Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy . Coixet's breakthrough came with My Life Without Me from 2003. The screenplay she wrote for the film is about a young woman who learns that she is terminally ill and who wants to do things in her remaining time that she has not done before Has. At the 2006 Goyas , her next film, The Secret Life of Words, dominated . Her film A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo took part in the competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival 2009 . Your film Nobody Wants the Night was the opening film of the 65th Berlinale . Her film Der Buchladen der Florence Green (The Bookshop / La librería) was awarded the Goya for Best Film , Best Director and Best Screenplay in 2018 .

Filmography

Awards

Memberships

  • President of EWA, European Women's Audiovisual Network

Web links

Commons : Isabel Coixet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I am Catalan, families are broken, people have fallen out . theguardian.com
  2. ↑ Interview with Isabel COIXET movie-eye.de
  3. ↑ Isabel Coixet festival-cannes.com
  4. ↑ a b orf.at: Goya: “The Bookshop” selected as best film . Article dated February 4, 2018, accessed February 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/02_programm_2013/02_Filmdatenblatt_2013_20131531.php
  6. ^ 'The Bookshop': Film Review . hollywoodreporter.com
personal data
SURNAME Coixet, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain