José Ramón Novoa

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José Ramón Novoa (born August 22, 1954 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Venezuelan film editor , film producer and film director .

Life

José Ramón Novoa was born in 1954 (1949 according to other sources) in the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo. He studied film at New York University and then founded the film production company Joel Films in Venezuela , with which he made his second feature film Sicario . He had previously made short films and the feature film Agonía .

Sicario was released in 1994. The film is about the youth Jairo (played by Laureano Olivares ), who tries to make his way through the streets of Colombia and takes a job as a hit man, as Sicario , to help his family out of poverty. The exit from crime is proving difficult for the twelve-year-old. The drama was at the Goya Awards 1996 as Best Foreign Film in Spanish nominated, was Venezuela submitting a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 1996 (but was neither nominated nor excellent) and won awards at numerous festivals, others Gledys Ibarra the supporting actor's prize and Novoa the Best director award at the Tokyo International film Festival 1995th

Sicario was the first part of a trilogy that he completed with Huelepega: Ley de la calle (1999) and Oro diablo (2000). While Novoa only acted as a producer at Huelepega: Ley de la calle and left the director's post to his wife Elia Schneider , he also directed Oro diablo . The trilogy was designed to highlight child poverty in Latin America. In Oro diablo , which was also Venezuela's candidate for an Oscar nomination, the focus is on a girl from the Venezuelan Amazon jungle who is forced to work in a brothel and raped there.

After Novoa's new directorial work, the action film El Don , was published in 2006, the film Un lugar lejano is planned for 2008 .

Filmography

  • 1979: Pedro Navaja (short film)
  • 1979: El gran mundo (short film)
  • 1985: Agonía
  • 1994: Sicario (direction, production and editing)
  • 1999: Huelepega: Ley de la calle (Production)
  • 2000: Oro diablo (director and producer)
  • 2004: Punto y raya (production)
  • 2006: El Don (director and editor)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cinecin.com. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Havana Film Festival New York 2001 ( Memento from October 29, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Novoa, José Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan film editor, film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay