Solveig Hoogesteijn
Hoogesteijn Solveig ( born August 3, 1946 in Sweden ) is a film director and screenwriter.
She was born the daughter of a Dutchman and a German mother in Sweden. 1947 she and her family emigrated to Venezuela. From 1971 to 1976 she studied film at the University of Television and Film Munich. Later, at the Central University of Venezuela went on to study art and literature.
The majority of their films whose screenplays they wrote themselves, was created in Venezuela and in Spanish, some in co-production with other countries (especially Germany and Spain). While they initially mainly on documentaries and films realized for television, she focused her work from the mid-1970s on feature films. Made her feature film debut she had with the based on a novel by Gabriel García Márquez film The Sea of Lost Time (1977 ), four years after its publication (1981), a prize at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. In German production was published in 1981 Germany it can sometimes be very nice.
In macu, the policeman's wife from 1987 is about a Elfährige who marries a 30 year old policeman. When she falls in love with a young man, the husband kidnapped them.
In 2005, the first published movie drama Maroa it comes to an eleven year old, living in poverty girl from Caracas, which is developing a passion for music and as a new life begins. The idea for this film came Hoogesteijn when she visited a children's home in Caracas. This film was Venezuela's submission to a nomination for " Best Foreign Language Film " at the Academy Awards 2007.