Joaquim Jordà

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Joaquim Jordà

Joaquim Jordà (born August 9, 1935 in Santa Coloma de Farners , † June 24, 2006 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish screenwriter, director and actor.

Jordà, who graduated in law from the University of Barcelona , only moved very late to the College of Cinema in Madrid . In 1952 he traveled to Paris to work in the area of ​​the Cinémathèque française . There he met Éric Rohmer , François Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, among others , and from there he got the political sentiments that characterize his work.

In 1958, Jordà joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas . He contributed to the magazines Acento Cultural , Cinema Universitario and Nuestro Cine and worked as assistant to the management, script / continuity , production manager and also as an actor for the directors Carlos Durán and Pere Portabella . Together with the producer Jacinto Esteva , he designed the Barcelona Film School ( Escuela de Cine de Barcelona ), which also included Gonzalo Suárez , Vicente Aranda and José María Nunes .

Together with Julián Marcos , Jordà directed his first short film El día de los muertos in 1961 . In 1966 he shot his first feature film Dante no es únicamente severo with Jacinto Esteva .

Due to economic difficulties and censorship, Jordà lived in Italy from the late 1960s to 1973. There he mainly made combative and alternative films such as Lenin vivo (1970) or I tupamaros ci parlano . The combative films have, among other things, the regime in Portugal ( Estado Novo ) as their content. When he returned to Spain, he already had a collection of scripts. He devoted himself fully to literary translation and worked with screenwriter Vicente Aranda in films such as Cambio de sexo (1977), El Lute, camina o revienta (1987) and El Lute II, mañana seré libre (1988), as well as in the television series Los jinetes del Alba together.

From 1980 onwards, Jordà devoted himself to cinema and especially to documentary film. It emerged Numax presenta produced from the last 600,000 pesetas, the resistance checkout of the striking workers of the home appliance manufacturer Numax, El encargo del cazador over the years Jacinto Estevas , De niños over the district El Raval in Barcelona, Monos como Becky about the lobotomy and Veinte años no es nada as the second part and successor to Numax presenta .

Another film is Un cuerpo en el bosque ( Un cos al bosc , 1996), an erotic thriller that ties in with his first film in many ways.

Joaquim Jordà died on June 24, 2006 in Barcelona at the age of 70.

Awards

Jordà was posthumously awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía ( national film award by the Spanish Ministry of Culture) in 2006.

In addition, Joaquim Jordà was nominated three times for the Goya in the category Best Documentary :

  • 2005 with the film Denens
  • 2006 with the film Veinte años no es nada
  • 2007 with the film Más allá del espejo

and once in the Best Adapted Script category:

  • 1989 with the film El Lute II: mañana seré libre

Filmography

  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • 1987 -

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personal data
SURNAME Jordà, Joaquim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish screenwriter, director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Coloma de Farners
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2006
Place of death Barcelona