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A French director born in Paris in 1930. A movie buff by calling, he set up his first film club at the age of 13. After graduating in Arts from Paris University, he started to write in the magazine "Arts" at the start of the fifties from where he moved shortly afterwards to the editorial department of "Cahiers du Cinéma", where he worked together with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer. The author of an essential book on the figure of Hitchcock and some unforgettable articles, Chabrol was the first of the mythical editors at "Cahiers du Cinéma" to start directing films in 1958 with his first work Le beau Serge (Handsome Serge) which to a certain extent began what shortly afterwards was to be known as La Nouvelle Vague. Since then he had directed more than fifty films in which he has sketched an incisive ironic portrait of French society, especially of the provincial bourgeoisie. Comedy, drama, film noir, Chabrol has worked in all the genres and has left his distinctive trade mark in his films. A magnificent story-teller, he is also a exquisite gourmet who can enjoy a good meal just as much as a great film. Chabrol has been at the Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival on several occasions: 1967 with Le Scandale (Champagne Murders); 1970, with Le boucher (The butcher); 1986 with Inspecteur Lavardin (Inspector Lavardin). The last time he was here was with Rien ne va plus (The Swindle) which won him the Golden Shell in 1997. |
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An Italian director and producer, he was born in Parma in 1947. He is Bernardo Bertolucci's brother and began to work with him as director's assistant on La strategia del ragno (The Spider's stratagem). Shortly after this he wrote the script for Novecento and La luna with him. After making several films for television, he made his film debut in 1977 with Berlinguer ti voglio bene, starring Roberto Benigni. He has a gift for comedy, but nevertheless it is in documentaries and portraits of women that Giuseppe Bertolucci is at his best: Segreti segreti (Secrets Secrets, 1985), Amori in corso, which was presented in 1989 at the Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival in the Zabaltegi section, or Il dolce rumore della vita (1999). His latest film, L'amore probabilmente was presented this year at the Venice Film Festival. |
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A costume designer, born in Salford, Manchester, in 1940. She studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester and started working alongside Cecil Beaton in the spectacular designs for the theatrical version of My Fair Lady. She made her debut as a costume designer in 1966 in Judith, by Daniel Mann. Since then she has worked on almost forty films for directors such as François Truffaut, Richard Lester, Paul Verhoeven or Richard Donner. In 1971 she won an Oscar for her work in Nicholas and Alexandra by Franklin J. Shaffner. She settled in Spain and began to work regularly in Spanish films where she has won two Goyas for her work in Remando al viento (Rowing in the wind, 1988) by Gonzalo Suárez, and Canción de cuna (Cradle Song, 1994) by José Luis Garci. She has put her subtle original conception of costume design into practice in cinema, theatre, ballet and television where her work in the mini-series Casanova won her an Emmy nomination. Yvonne Blake lives in Madrid, but works half the time in Los Angeles and half in Spain. One of her latest collaborations has been The Sacrifice, shot in Almería starring Willem Dafoe. |
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A Brazilian actress and director. She worked as a stewardess in Brazil before going to Paris to study art at the Sorbonne. In 1967 in Italy she met the director Luchino Visconti who encouraged her to go into films. She started her career as an actress working with directors as important as Luchino Visconti, Elio Petri or Giuliano Montaldo. In 1970 the romantic melodrama Anónimo veneziano (The Anonymous Venetian) by Enrico Maria Salerno made her a well-known figure in European cinema. Since then she has worked as an actress on both stage and screen between Italy, France and England. In the year 2000 she made her debut as a director fulfilling an old dream of shooting a film about her own city, her family, her sisters and her friends. A heart-felt sensuous story, packed with secrets, mysteries and love: Eu nao conhecia Tururu (I didn't know Tururú) was presented last year at the Donostia-San Sebastián Festival in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. |
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A Basque director, born in Zarautz in 1944. He tried to get into the EOC, but he wasn't old enough, so he started working in the Popular Children's Theatre Company. His first full-length film was precisely a film for children Fantasía...3. In 1968 he directed Algo amargo en la boca which gave him his first problems with the censors. He joined the Spanish Communist Party in 1971 and since then he has combined his political activism with films that show a deep political commitment to the working-classes. He achieved notoriety in 1970 with El techo de cristal (Glass Ceiling) and La semana del asesino (Week of the Killer) a year later. However it was to be after Franco's death, during the Transition, when Eloy de la Iglesia established a personal kind of cinema with provocative powerful images, in which he dealt openly with homosexuality, hypocrisy, drugs and juvenile delinquency in films like Los placeres ocultos (Hidden Pleasures, 1976), El diputado (The Deputy, 1978), Navajeros (1980) El pico (1983) and El pico II (1984). In 1987 he directed La estanquera de Vallecas which was to be his last film before he disappeared for a while due to personal problems. In 1996 the San Sebastián Festival devoted a retrospective to his work that led him to return to the world of cinema. In the year 2000 he filmed a version of Calígula by Albert Camus for television and at the moment he is preparing to shoot a new full-length film, Los novios búlgaros. |
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A Chilean writer, born in Santiago in 1931. He studied Law at the University of Chile. A diplomat since 1957, he was responsible for opening the Chilean Embassy in Havana. When he was ambassador to UNESCO he received a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal from the French government. In 1994 he received the National Literature Award. In April 2000 he picked up the prestigious 1999 Cervantes Award at the same time as the Chilean Ministry of Education awarded him the Gabriela Mistral Order of Merit. He began to write in 1952 but he didn't become successful until he published his sixth book "Persona Non Grata" (1973) which made him a popular writer although he was very controversial for both the Right and the Left in Chile. At the same time as "Persona Non Grata" was published he abandoned his diplomatic career after the triumph of General Pinochet's military coup that forced him to go into exile in Spain. Since then he has published another 10 books, including "Adiós, poeta" (1990) in which he recalls his friendship with the poet Pablo Neruda. His latest novel, "El sueño de la historia", describes his family's life during General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. |
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A British festival programmer. After working for several years as a teacher and writing on subjects to do with culture, she began to work in independent cinema at the end of the eighties. She was one of the driving forces behind one of the Regional Arts Boards in Great Britain. She ran various seminars on screenings and distribution strategies. In 1991 she took charge of the Manchester Cornerhouse cinema, a complex with three cinemas and a contemporary art gallery where she organised various seasons of films. It was in this context that the idea came up of holding specialised festivals such as "Viva!", the first British festival devoted to Spanish cinema and the Festival of Independent American Cinema. In 1997 she started to work as a programmer at the London Film Festival, where she is the deputy director. She has directed documentaries and fictional short films and writes regularly in various film magazines. |
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