Marta Balletbò-Coll

Marta Balletbò-Coll
Born 1960
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia
Occupation Film actress, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer

Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Catalan actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Biography

Balletbò-Coll earned a degree in analytical chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona, and later worked as a journalist from 1982 to 1986. She subsequently worked as a translator in the United States, where she earned a Master's degree in cinematography from Columbia University in New York City on a Fulbright-LaCaixa scholarship.

Cinematographic career

After Balletbò-Coll worked in multiple American advertising agencies, she founded Costabrava Films with Ana Simón Cerezo, with their first movie, Costa Brava, being released in 1995, which was very successful at Frameline Film Festival.

In 2006, she was awarded with the National Film Award of Catalonia,[1] granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya for the production of her film Sévigné.[2] The film also won the grand prix of the Créteil International Women's Film Festival in 2006.

Filmography

  • 2004: Sévigné
  • 1998: Cariño, he enviado los hombres a la luna!
  • 1995: Costa Brava
  • 1992: Intrepidíssima (short film)
  • 1991: Harlequin Exterminator (short film)

Nominations

Butaca Awards
Year Category Movie Result
2005 Best Catalan Movie Sévigné Winner
2003 Best Catalan Actress Sévigné Nominated

References

  1. ↑ Noticia sobre los Premios Nacionales de la Generalidad de Cataluña (en catalán)
  2. ↑ Crítica sobre la película (en catalán)
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