Agustí Villaronga
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| Agustí Villaronga | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 (age 58–59) Majorca, Spain |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1976 – present |
Agustí Villaronga Riutort (Catalan pronunciation: [əɣusˈti viʎəˈɾoŋɡə]; born 1953) is a Balearic Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor.[1] He has directed eleven films since 1976. His film El niño de la luna was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
In 2011, he won the Goya Award for Best Director for Pa negre (Black Bread). The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards,[3] but it did not make the final shortlist.[4]
[edit] Filmography
- Anta mujer (1976)
- Al mayurka (1980)
- Laberint (1980)
- Tras el cristal (1987)
- El niño de la luna (1989)
- Le passager clandestin (1995)
- 99.9 (1997)
- El mar (2000)
- Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002)
- Fuck Them All videoclip for French singer Mylène Farmer (2005)
- Després de la pluja (2007)
- Pa negre (2010)
[edit] References
- ^ "Agustí Villaronga". spainisculture. http://www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/agusti_villaronga.html. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Moon Child". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/237/year/1989.html. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ ""PA NEGRE" REPRESENTARÁ A ESPAÑA EN LOS OSCAR". CBC. http://premiososcar2012.blogspot.com/2011/09/pa-negre-representara-espana-en-los.html. Retrieved -2011-09-28.
- ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar". http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2012/20120118.html. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
[edit] External links
- Agustí Villaronga at the Internet Movie Database
- Another Time, Another Place: The horrific, the fantastic and the fairy-like in the films of Agustín Villaronga
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