Isabel Coixet
| Isabel Coixet | |
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| Born | 9 April 1960 Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Spain |
Isabel Coixet (Catalan pronunciation: [izəˈβɛɫ kuˈʃɛt]) (born 9 April 1960 in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish film director.
She received an M.A. in history from the University of Barcelona. She has worked as a journalist and as a director for several television advertisements.[1][2]
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[edit] Advertising
Coixet was creative director of JWT, founder and creative director of the agency Target and the production company Eddie Saeta and, since 2000, owner of Miss Wasabi Lab SL. She has done ads for British Telecommunications, Ford, Danone, BMW, Ikea, Evax, Renault, Peugeot, Winston, Kronenbourg, Pepsi, Kellogg Company, MCI, Helene Curtis, Procter Gamble, Philip Morris and the ONCE foundation ("Veo Veo", 2006), amongst others. She is a public supporter of the Spanish Socialist Worker's Party and President Zapatero and made several Socialist ads for television during the 2008 Elections.
[edit] Shanghai World Expo 2010
Coixet, Bigas Luna and Martín Patino prepared an exhibit each for the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Expo.[3]
[edit] Films
- Demasiado viejo para morir joven ("Too Old to Die Young") (1989)[1]
- Cosas que nunca te dije (Things I Never Told You, 1996), with Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy[1]
- A los que aman ("To Those Who Love") (1998)[1]
- My Life Without Me (2003), with Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Maria de Medeiros and Amanda Plummer[1]
- ¡Hay motivo! (2004) (segment "La insoportable levedad del carrito de la compra")[1]
- The Secret Life of Words (2005), with Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins[1]
- Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment, "Bastille")[1]
- Elegy (2008) Based on Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, with Ben Kingsley, Peter Sarsgaard and Penélope Cruz[1]
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)
[edit] Awards
- Best Director at the 2005 Goya Awards for The Secret Life of Words.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Isabel Coixet at the Internet Movie Database
- Coixet's official website (in Spanish).
- Coixet website (in Spanish).
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