Paula Markovitch

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Paula Markovitch (born May 28, 1968 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter . She lives and works in Mexico .

biography

Paula Markovitch was born in Buenos Aires in 1968. In 1976, eight years after her birth, the government was overthrown in Argentina and a military dictatorship was established under Jorge Rafael Videla . At the same time, Markovitch's family moved to San Clemente del Tuyú , where they lived until she was twelve . After moving to Córdoba again , she began writing poetry, short stories and plays. At the age of 22 Markovitch emigrated to Mexico. She studied film and literature.

In the mid-1990s, Markovitch began her career as a screenwriter in Mexican cinema and television. Her first success was with her script for Carlos Carrera's film Sin remitente (1995). The drama about a lonely old postal worker (played by Fernando Torre Laphame ) who receives fake love letters from his neighbor in revenge, competed in the 1995 Venice Film Festival competition and was awarded four Ariel Premios in 1996. Markovitch himself received a nomination for the most important film award in Mexico in 1998 for Elisa antes del fin del mundo (1997). The crime drama follows a naive ten-year-old girl who is instigated to rob a bank in order to avert the financial ruin of her parents.

After further work for series or documentary films, the script for Enrique Begnes ' award-winning relationship drama Dos abrazos followed in 2007 . Markovitch also worked twice as a screenwriter with Fernando Eimbcke . Together they conceived the story for Eimbcke's internationally acclaimed feature film debut Mexican Kids - Temporada de patos (2004), which reports on four different young people from Mexico City who involuntarily spend a Sunday together in an apartment. Lake Tahoe , who competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008 and won the Alfred Bauer and FIPRESCI Prize , was similarly successful . The film focuses on a boy (played by Mexican Kids actor Diego Cataño ) in a provincial town on the Mexican Yucatán peninsula , who listlessly and aimlessly searches for a replacement part for his wrecked car. The film service sometimes noticed almost surreal breaks and curious twists and turns in an almost dialog-free plot, but nevertheless reviewed Lake Tahoe as an "impressive meditation on the confrontation with death that does not drown in melancholy but finds its way back to life."

Parallel to her work as a screenwriter, Markovitch made Perriférico, her first short film in 1999 , in which Diego Luna played one of the roles. This brought her an invitation to the competition at the Canadian World Film Festival . After a second short film ( Música de ambulancia , 2009), Markovitch made her feature film debut in 2011 with El premio ( German  “Der Preis” ), for which she also wrote the screenplay. The semi-autobiographical story is about the little daughter of political dissidents who unconsciously endangered her parents by writing an essay during the military junta in Argentina. According to his own statements, Markovitch had wanted to film the story for about 20 years. She chose her former place of residence San Clemente del Tuyú as the filming location and relied on young amateur actors for the cast. The co-production with France and Poland, supported by the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE) and the Berlinale World Cinema Fund , was accepted into the 2011 competition at the 61st Berlin Film Festival , where it was awarded two Silver Bears for camera and production design.

Paula Markovitch lives in Mexico. There she works, among other things, as a dramaturge and lecturer at IMCINE. Despite her Argentine origins, she sees herself as a Mexican.

Filmography

Screenwriter (selection)

  • 1995: Sin remitente
  • 1997: Elisa antes del fin del mundo
  • 1997: Addiciones (TV documentary)
  • 1998: Al borde
  • 2003: Ligerita (short film)
  • 2004: Mexican Kids - Temporada de patos
  • 2007: Dos abrazos
  • 2008: Lake Tahoe
  • 2009: Música de ambulancia (short film)
  • 2011: Una pared para Cecilia
  • 2011: El premio

Director

  • 1999: Perriférico (short film)
  • 2009: Música de ambulancia (short film)
  • 2011: El Premio

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Information (PDF; 98 kB) on El premio including vita at berlinale.de (accessed on February 7, 2011)
  2. ↑ a b c d cf. Eligen opera prima de Paula Markovitch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.imcine.gob.mx   at imcine.gob.mx, January 22, 2011 (accessed February 8, 2011)
  3. ↑ a b cf. Cabrera, Omar: Va cinta mexicana por Oso de Oro . In: Reforma, January 19, 2011, No. 6236, p. 10
  4. ↑ cf. Film review by Josef Lederle in film-dienst 25/2008 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
personal data
SURNAME Markovitch, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcovitch, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina