Isabel Coixet
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
- 1983: Morbus (script only)
- 1984: Mira y verás
- 1989: Demasiado viejo para morir joven
- 1996: What I've never told you before (Cosas que nunca te dije)
- 1998: A los que aman
- 2003: My Life Without Me (My Life Without Me)
- 2004: ¡Hay motivo! (Segment La insoportable levedad del carrito de la compra )
- 2004: Marlango - It's Alright (music video)
- 2005: The Secret Life of Words (The Secret Life of Words)
- 2006: Paris, je t'aime ( Bastille segment )
- 2007: Invisibles ( Cartas a Nora segment )
- 2008: Elegy or the art of loving (Elegy)
- 2009: A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
- 2011: Escuchando al Juez Garzón (Listening To The Judge)
- 2013: Another Me - My alter ego (Another Me)
- 2013: Ayer no termina nunca (Yesterday never Ends)
- 2014: Learning to Drive - Driving Lessons for Life (Learning to Drive)
- 2015: Nobody Wants the Night (Nadie quiere la noche)
- 2017: The Florence Green Bookshop (The Bookshop / La librería)
- 2019: Elisa and Marcela (Elisa y Marcela)
Awards
- 2003: Prize of the Gilde Deutscher Filmkunsttheater at the Berlinale 2003 for my life without me
- 2004: Goya for the best adapted screenplay for My Life Without Me
- 2005: Goya for ¡Hay motivo!
- 2006: Goya for best film, best director, best producer and best original screenplay for The Secret Life of Words
- 2009: Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien for A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
- 2016: German Actor Award 2016 in the category of honorary award "Inspiration"
- 2018: Goya for best film, best director and best screenplay for The Florence Green Bookstore
Memberships
- President of EWA, European Women's Audiovisual Network
Web links
- Isabel Coixet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Isabel Coixet at filmportal.de
- Detailed portrait (PDF; 1.6 MB) in the FILMBULLETIN magazine
- Official Website (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ I am Catalan, families are broken, people have fallen out . theguardian.com
- ↑ Interview with Isabel COIXET movie-eye.de
- ↑ Isabel Coixet festival-cannes.com
- ↑ a b orf.at: Goya: “The Bookshop” selected as best film . Article dated February 4, 2018, accessed February 4, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/02_programm_2013/02_Filmdatenblatt_2013_20131531.php
- ^ 'The Bookshop': Film Review . hollywoodreporter.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Coixet, Isabel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona , Spain |