Isabel Coixet

Isabel Coixet ( born April 9, 1960 in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona region, Spain) is a Catalan film director and screenwriter, who comes from the advertising industry. Her films usually penetrate ago in intimate details of human existence.

Life

Coixet grew up in a communist family under the Franco regime. She studied history with a focus on contemporary history at the University of Barcelona and has started at the age of 19 years to work as a copywriter. Later she worked as a creative director at the advertising agency JWT and commercial director and founded the creative agency Target and the production companies Edie Saeta and Miss Wasabi Films. She also wrote for the major Spanish film magazine Fotogramas. She has won numerous awards for their advertising works; to its customers included, among other things, the BT Group, Ford, Danone, BMW, Ikea, Evax, Renault, Peugeot, Winston, Kronenbourg, Pepsi, Kellogg's, MCI, Helene Curtis, Procter & Gamble and AT & T. 2004 appear in Spain their autobiographical essays La vida es un Guion ( Life is a writer).

Work

Made her feature film debut in 1989 with Demasiado viejo para morir joven, for which she also wrote the screenplay. Although nominated for a new director for the Goya, her next movie was released in 1996 with Things I Never Told You. The award-winning drama enthusiastic critics, among others, by Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarty in the lead roles.

The breakthrough came with Coixet My Life Without Me from the year 2003. Wrote the screenplay of their film deals with a young woman who learns that she is terminally ill, and who still wants to get things done in their remaining time they have not done has. The Goya 2006 her next film dominated The Secret Life of Words. He won in the categories "Best Film", " Best Director ", " Best Producer " and "Best Original Screenplay ". Your movie Map of the Sounds of Tokyo was in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival part of 2009, and she was recognized for her performance with the Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien.

Filmography

Awards (selection)

• 2003: Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas at the Berlinale in 2003 for My Life Without Me
• 2004: Goya for best adapted screenplay for My Life Without Me
• 2005: Goya for ¡ Hay motivo!
• 2006: Goya for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Producer and Best Original Screenplay for The Secret Life of Words
• 2009: Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien for Map of the Sounds of Tokyo