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Ventura Pons
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director. After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, 'Ocaña,…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director. After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, 'Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait', which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Some of his movies have been produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S.A., founded in 1985 and he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the Berlin International Film Festival for many consecutive years. He began his movie career making comedies about local customs. Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Sergi Belbel, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Jordi Puntí, Ferran Torrent and Lluïsa Cunillé. In 1995 he was awarded the National Cinema Prize by the Government of Catalonia, which also awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ventura Pons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2019
Univers(o) Pecanins
Movie Director
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2019
Cinema mon amour
Movie Self
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2019
Be Happy!
Movie Producer
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2018
Miss Dalí
Movie Producer
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2018
Universal i faraona
Movie Director
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2017
The Bigger, the Better
Movie Producer
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2016
Oh, quina joia!
Movie Director
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2016
Cola, Colita, Colassa (Oda a Barcelona)
Movie Director
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2015
Virus of Fear
Movie Director
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2015
Còmics
TV show Self
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2014
Ignasi M.
Movie Director
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2013
An Afternoon in Geneva
Movie Director
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2011
Year of Grace
Movie Writer
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2011
La Rambla: secrets d'un escenari
Movie Self
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2011
A Thousand Fools
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2009
Adrift
Movie Director
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2008
Strangers
Movie Director
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2007
Barcelona (A Map)
Movie Director
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2007
Life in the Abyss
Movie Director
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2006
Wounded Animals
Movie Director
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2004
Idiot Love
Movie Director
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2003
El gran Gato
Movie Writer
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2002
Food of Love
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2001
Anita Takes a Chance
Movie Director
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2000
To Die (Or Not)
Movie Director
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1999
Beloved/Friend
Movie Director
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1998
Caresses
Movie Director
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1997
Actresses
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1995
What's It All About
Movie Director
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1994
Rosita, please!
Movie Director
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1992
Aquesta nit o mai
Movie Director
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1991
What Do You Bet, Mari Pili?
Movie Director
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1989
Puta misèria!
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1987
The Blonde at the Bar
Movie Director
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1981
The Victor of Olot
Movie Director
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1978
Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait
Movie Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
