José Rivera (Author)
José Rivera (born March 24, 1955 in San Juan , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican playwright and screenwriter .
Life
José Rivera grew up in Arecibo , Puerto Rico before his family immigrated to the United States in 1959 and settled on Long Island . He studied acting at a college and it took six years before he won a competition in 1983 for his play The House of Ramon Iglesia , which secured him $ 5,000 and the production. He later studied with Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez at the Sundance Institute . In 1984 he made his debut as a screenwriter with two scripts for the television series aka Pablo . He established himself both as a playwright and as a screenwriter. His most important work to date is the screenplay for the film biography Die Reise des Junge Che ( The Journey of Young Che) , for which he received a nomination for the best adapted screenplay at the Academy Awards . This made him the first Puerto Rican author to receive this honor.
Works
- 1983: The House of Ramon Iglesia
- 1988: The Promise
- 1990: Each Day Dies With Sleep
- 1992: Marisol
- 1993: tape
- 1997: Giants Have Us In Their Books
- 1995: Cloud tectonics
- 1996: The Street of the Sun
- 1998: Sueno
- 2000: Lovers of Long Red Hair
- 2000: References To Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot
- 2000: Sonnets for an Old Century
- 2006: School of the Americas
- 2007: Massacre (Sing To Your Children)
- 2008: Brainpeople
- 2008: Boleros for the Disinchanted
- 2008: Human Emotional Process
- 2010: Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words
- 2010: Golden
- 2010: The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Translation)
Filmography
- 1984: aka Pablo (TV series, two episodes)
- 1985: Any more questions Arnold? ( Diff'rent Strokes , TV series, three episodes)
- 1991–1992: Eerie, Indiana (TV series, 19 episodes)
- 1998: The Jungle Book: Mowgli's adventures ( The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story )
- 2004: Young Che's Journey ( Diarios de motocicleta )
- 2007: Trade - Welcome to America ( Trade )
- 2010: Letters to Julia ( Letters to Juliet )
- 2012: On the Road - Unterwegs (On the Road)
Awards (selection)
- OFCS 2004 : Nomination for the best adapted screenplay with Die Reise des Junge Che
- Chlotrudis Awards 2005 : Nomination for the best adapted screenplay for Die Reise des Junge Che
- Goya 2005 : Best Adapted Screenplay for Young Che's Journey
- Academy Awards 2005 : Nomination for the best adapted screenplay for Die Reise des Junge Che
Web links
- José Rivera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Playwrite & Screenwriter José Rivera ( Memento from December 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), thewriterlypause.blogspot.de
- ↑ José Rivera , nytimes.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rivera, José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Puerto Rican playwright and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Juan , Puerto Rico |