Isabel Coixet
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Isabel Coixet Castillo (born 9 April 1960) is a Spanish film director.
She is one of the most prolific film producers of contemporary Spain, having produced twelve feature-length films since the start of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials.
Her films depart from Spain's traditional national cinema and help "untangle films from their national context," paving the way for further study of national cinema from different perspectives.
Early life
Isabel Coixet was born in Barcelona on April 9th, 1960. On the occasion of her First Communion, she began filming with an 8 mm camera. She earned a bachelor's degree in history at Barcelona University, where she concentrated on Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century History. She continued to work in ad campaigns, establishing herself as the agency's creative director.
BMW, Renault, and Ikea were among her clients. She has received numerous awards for her appearances, but her advertisements did not match her hopes.
Mira y verás was Coixet's first short film in 1984.
Personal life and political views
Zoe, Coixet's daughter, was born in 1997, a year after the introduction of her first film, Things I Never Told You. César Sala, a musician, and singer, lives in Barcelona with her husband.
Coixet was one of the signatories of the "Call to the federalist and left-wing Catalonia" manifesto in October 2012, asking the Catalan left-wing for an unashamed federalist stance vis-à-vis the state. She has voiced her opposition to the upcoming independence referendum in Catalonia in October 2017, unveiling yet another sign of her urging people not to vote. She signed a manifesto in April 2020 to say "enough" to the "Catalan government's political mismanagement" and "its unsupportive and irresponsible remarks" on the coronavirus epidemic.
Career
Coixet made her debut as a scriptwriter and producer in Demasiado Viejo Para Morir Joven (Too Old to Die Young) in 1988. She was named as a Best New Director at the Goya Awards for this film.
(Cosas que no longer cose dije) In 1996, she travelled to the United States to film her first English-language feature film, Things I Never Told You. This touching drama stars American actors led by Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy. At the Goya Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Coixet received her second nomination. Coixet later joined a French manufacturing company, and in 1998 she shot A los que aman for the first time in Spain and Spanish. Mi vida sin m (My Life Without Me) was her first production company two years ago, with which she made her most popular film to date, Mi vida sin m (My Life Without Me). Since then, she has been one of Spain's most well-known producers.
Miss Wasabi Films, a film company founded in 2000, has produced over 400 commercials.
She achieved international prominence in 2003 thanks to the intimate drama My Life Without Me. The film was based on Nancy Kincaid's short story. Sarah Polley, a Canadian actress, portrayed Ann, a young mother who decides not to tell her family that she has terminal cancer. At the Berlin International Film Festival, this Hispanic-Canadian co-production was highly lauded.
Coixet continued to work on Polley's latest film, The Secret Life of Words, starring Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, and Javier Cámara, which was released in 2005. The film received four Goya Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Production, and Best Screenplay.
In 2005, Coixet joined eighteen other international filmmakers, among whom Gus Van Sant, Walter Salles, and Ethan Cohen, to create the monumental collective project Paris, je t'aime, in which each filmmaker explored a different Paris quarter.
In addition, Coixet has produced Invisibles, which was selected for the 2007 Berlin Film Festival's "Panorama" section. The documentary Journey to Torture, which was shot in Sarajevo during the Balkan War and received an award at the 1998 Human Rights Film Festival in October 2003.
The Generalitat de Catalunya honoured her in April 2006 with the Creu de San Jordi De Cine Awards. The Barcelona director was not one of the few recipients of just two awards. She won the Rosa de Sant Jordi award for best Spanish film in addition to the critical award for The Secret Life of Words (La vida las palabras), as the best Spanish film in the world, as well as the audience of Radio Nacional de Espaa (RNE). At the Palau de la Msica, the award ceremony took place.
Coixet created Elegy, a Vancouver film directed by Lakeshore Entertainment, in 2008. The film was based on Philip Roth's book The Dying Animal, was written for the screen by Nicholas Meyer, and Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley appeared. Elegy was on display at the Berlin International Film Festival for the 58th time.
She premiered Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, shot in both Japan and Barcelona, and starring Rinko Kikuchi, Sergi López, and Min Tanaka, with a script by Coixet herself. She opened From I to J, an exhibition on display in honor of John Berger's work.
She received the gold medal for Fine Arts and was also a member of the jury of the 59th Berlin Film Festival the same year.
In April 2009 at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mónica in Barcelona, and in April 2010, Coixet presented a monographic exhibition dedicated to British writer, art critic, poet, and artist John Berger, titled From I to J. Isabel Coixet's tribute to John Berger with the collaboration of the architect Benedetta Tagliabue and the participation of the actresses Penélope Cruz, Monica Bellucci, Isabelle Huppert, Maria de Medeiros, Sarah Polley, and Leonor Watling.
Also in 2009, she produced La mujer es cosa de hombres: male violence and the media. "50 years of..." is the history of Catalonia.
She took responsibility for one of the Expo Shanghai's three Spanish Pavilion lounges in 2010. In addition, she opened Aral's exhibition. In 2009, the Lost Sea, which appears on her film with the same name, was shot in Uzbekistan.
In 2011, she premiered the film "Berlinale Specials" section of the Berlin Film Festival, speaking to the Spanish magistrate through an interview with writer Manuel Rivas. The film received the Goya award in the Best Documentary category of the Goya.
Under the title White Tide, she produced an article about the ten years of the Prestige disaster and the volunteers who helped with the restoration of the Galician coasts.
In the first year of the Berlin Panorama Section, Coixet shot and produced Ayer no termina nunca (Yesterday Never Ends), which premiered in the Ayer no termina nunca (Yesterday Never Ends) film festival. The film debuted at the Málaga Film Festival the same year, where it took home four Silver Biznagas in the categories Special Jury Prize, Best Actress, Best Photography, and Best Editing, one of Jordi Azategui's last two prizes. Sophie Turner, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, and Geraldine Chaplin appeared in a new project at the end of 2012, which she finished in 2013.
Learning to Drive, an American production based on an article published in The New York Times and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, with whom Isabel Coixet had already worked in Elegy in the summer of 2013. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and took home the Grolsch People's Choice Award.
Nobody Wants The Night was her next project, shot in Norway, Bulgaria, and the Canary Islands. Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, and Gabriel Byrne appeared in the film. The film opened the 66th Berlin International Film Festival to competition.
Coixet is always interested in shooting documentaries to announce what she does not agree with or refuses to say. Juliette Binoche shot a documentary in Chad at the end of 2014, titled Talking About Rose: The Prisoner of Hissène Habré. The essay explores the testimony of a group of torture victims in their attempts to bring the former Chadian tyrant to justice, a protest led by US human rights lawyer Reed Brody.
The award was attributed to her entire career, and it was hosted by Elena Trapé, who was commissioned by the Festival itself, Words, Maps, Secrets, And Other Things.
Also in 2015, she was awarded the French Ministry of Culture of Knights of Arts and Letters.
Isabel Coixet, the Spanish version of the documentary crowdsourcing initiative that was produced by Mediapro, conducts the project Spain in a Day, the Spanish version of the documentary crowdsourcing project launched by Mediapro between 2015 and 2016. The initiative aims to portray the truth of a nation represented by hundreds of domestic videos shot on the same day and that has had as concrete precedents as Britain in a Day and Italy in a Day. The videos were shot on October 24, 2015, by thousands of volunteers in the case of Spain in a Day.
She produced The Bookshop, a film directed by La librera in the summer of 2016. Coixet's script was based on Penelope Fitzgerald's book of the same name and received the award for the best literary translation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017. Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson appear in the film in Northern Ireland and Barcelona. On November 10, the Bookshop opened the SEMINCI 2017 as a world premiere, receiving excellent feedback and being commercially distributed in Spain, with a strong critical reception and high public success.
At the 68th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Bookshop was premiered outside of Spain in a "Berlinale Special Gala" at the Berlin International Film Festival, which took place in February 2018.
In February 2019, Coixet unveiled the film Elisa y Marcela in collaboration with Netflix. The film, which was based on the first registered same-sex marriage in Spain, was Netflix's third original Spanish film.
Isabel Coixet will be honoured with the National Film Award 2020, according to the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports on September 4th. At the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the award was given.
Isabel Coixet founded Miss Wasabi, a 2000 production firm with the intention to self-produce her own personal projects. The company has devoted itself mainly to advertising, filming video clips, documentaries, and a fictional film, but also to initiatives outside of the audiovisual industry, such as exhibitions, books, and other types of cultural projects. The documentary 'Aral, el mar perforation' (2010), directed and produced by Isabel Coixet, is one of the main projects that have been implemented in 2010: 'From I to J,' the feature film 'Ayer no termina nunca' (2013), or 'Talking about Rose." Hesène Habré, a prisoner of Hissène Habré, was released on Friday.
Isabel Coixet, along with fifteen other Catalan documentary filmmakers, had the intention of photographing images from Televisión Espaola's archive during the last half of the twentieth century. The programme, 50 years old (50 years ago...) is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the first televisionE broadcast in Catalonia, whose first headquarters was the magnificent Miramar Hotel in Barcelona, which was run for twenty-four years until 1983, when the production center was relocated to San Cugat del Vallés. Cómo hemos cambiado is back in a second season, as well as a third.