Rosa Vergés
Rosa Vergés | |
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Born | 22 February 1955 (1955-02-22) (age 69) Barcelona, Spain |
Occupation(s) | Filmmaker screenwriter |
Rosa Vergés Coma (born 22 February 1955) is a Spanish film and television director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Barcelona, the daughter of publisher José Vergés Matas [es] and actress Silvia Morgan, Vergés studied art history at the University of Barcelona and at University of Paris.[1][2] After brief experiences as a model and a stage actress,[1] she started her career as a scriptwriter and an assistant director, collaborating among others with Bigas Luna and Vicente Aranda.[2][3] Before her feature film debut, she directed shorts, commercials and corporate videos.[1][3]
Vergés made her film debut in 1990 with Baby Boom, which premiered in the Critic's Week section of the 47th Venice International Film Festival [1][4] and got her the Goya for Best New Director.[1][5][6] Her following film Souvenir, a comedy about the interracial romance between a Japanese man and a Spanish woman, was a commercial success.[6]
Selected filmography
- Boom boom (1990)
- Souvenir (1994)
- Tic Tac (1997)
- Iris (2004)
References
- ^ a b c d e Heredero, Carlos F. (1999). "Rosa Vergés". 20 nuevos directores del cine español. Alianza Editorial. pp. 356–70. ISBN 978-84-206-3866-9.
- ^ a b Heredero, Carlos F. (1997). "Vergés, Rosa". Espejo de miradas: entrevistas con nuevos directores del cine español de los años noventa (in Spanish). Fundación Colegio del Rey. p. 752. ISBN 978-84-87153-99-0.
- ^ a b Crusells, Magí (2009). "Vergés, Rosa". Directores de cine en Cataluña: de la A a la Z (in Spanish). Edicions Universitat Barcelona. p. 239. ISBN 978-84-475-3316-9.
- ^ "Young Directors Featured in Critic's Week". The Hollywood Reporter. Vol. 314. Wilkerson Daily Corporation. 1990. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
- ^ Triana-Toribio, Núria (2016). Spanish Film Cultures: The Making and Unmaking of Spanish Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-84457-824-5.
- ^ a b Jordan, Barry (1998). Contemporary Spanish cinema. Manchester University Press. pp. 172–3. ISBN 978-0-7190-4412-0.
External links
- Rosa Vergés at IMDb
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- 1989: Ana Díez
- 1990: Rosa Vergés
- 1991: Juanma Bajo Ulloa
- 1992: Julio Medem
- 1993: Mariano Barroso
- 1994: La Cuadrilla: Santiago Aguilar Alvear and Luis Guridi
- 1995: Agustín Díaz Yanes
- 1996: Alejandro Amenábar
- 1997: Fernando León de Aranoa
- 1998: Santiago Segura
- 1999: Benito Zambrano
- 2000: Achero Mañas
- 2001: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
- 2002: Julio Wallovits and Roger Gual
- 2003: Ángeles González-Sinde
- 2004: Pablo Malo
- 2005: José Corbacho and Juan Cruz
- 2006: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
- 2007: J. A. Bayona
- 2008: Santiago Zannou
- 2009: Mar Coll
- 2010: David Pinillos
- 2011: Kike Maíllo
- 2012: Enrique Gato
- 2013: Fernando Franco
- 2014: Carlos Marqués-Marcet
- 2015: Daniel Guzmán
- 2016: Raúl Arévalo
- 2017: Carla Simón
- 2018: Arantxa Echevarría
- 2019: Belén Funes
- 2020: Pilar Palomero
- 2021: Clara Roquet
- 2022: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
- 2023: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren