Pablo Larraín
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Pablo Larraín | |
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| Born | Pablo Larraín Matte August 19, 1976 |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Spouse | Antonia Zegers |
| Children | Juana Larraín Zegers Pascual Larraín Zegers |
| Parent(s) | Magdalena Matte Hernán Larraín |
Pablo Larraín Matte (luh-ruh-EEN; born 19 August 1976 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean filmmaker. He has directed four feature films and co-directed one television series.[1]
Biography
Pablo Larrain Matte was born on August 19, 1976 to Independent Democrat Union senator Hernán Larraín and Sebastián Piñera's former minister of Housing and Urbanism Magdalena Matte. He studied audiovisual communication at the University for the Arts, Sciences, and Communication in Santiago.
He is a co-founder of Fábula, a company in which he develops his cinematic and advertising projects [2].
He directed his first feature film in 2005; it was officially released in march 2006 and won international acclaim after winning several prizes at international film festivals, especially those of Cartagena, Málaga and many others [3]. His following films consolidated his international success [4].
In 2011 he began to direct a television series, Profugos.
His fourth feature film is No, in which Gael García Bernal plays the role of the owner of an advertising company who runs a campaign to vote "No" in the 1988 plebiscite that was designed to keep Augusto Pinochet in power.
Despite his family ties to the Chilean right wing, his work as a cinema director has nothing in common with the right, and Larraín himself is very anti-Pinochet. "In Chile, the right, as part of the Pinochet government, is directly responsible for what happened to culture during those years, not only by destroying it or restricting its spread, but also through its persecution or writers and artists", Larraín declared in 2008. He stated that "Chile found itself unable to express itself artistically for nearly twenty years" and also felt that "the right wing throughout the world is not very interested in culture and this reveals the ignorance that is probably theirs, because it is difficult for someone to make the most of something or to enjoy it if you have no knowledge of it". [5] [6]
He is married to the chilean actress Antonia Zegers, with whom he had two children: Juana (2008)[7] and Pascual (2011).
Career
His fourth feature film, No was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival[8][9] where it won the Art Cinema Award.[10] The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.[11]
In 2011 Larraín co-directed the television series Prófugos, distributed by HBO Latin America.[12]
Filmography
- Fuga (2006)
- Tony Manero (2008)
- Post Mortem (2010)
- No (2012)
- Gloria (2013, producer)
References
- ^ Kaleem Aftab. "Pablo Larraín". List.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
- ^ [1] English-language version of his site, some elements are not actually translated
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442236/awards List of awards for his first film Fuga
- ^ Dominique CASIMIRO, "Le cinéma sans tain / teint de Pablo Larrain", Narcisse à l'écran, Bénédicte Brémard, Julie Michot y Carl Vetters (ed.), Les Cahiers du Littoral, n° 15, 2012, pp. 69-81
- ^ Translated from the Spanish wikipedia as of 7 march 2013 [2]
- ^ La Tercera newspaper article sourced in the spanish Wikipedia article
- ^ "Se acabó la dulce espera de Antonia Zegers: Fue mamá". Terra.cl. 19 March 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
- ^ Leffler, Rebecca. "Cannes 2012: Michel Gondry's 'The We & The I' to Open Director's Fortnight". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ^ "2012 Selection". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Directors' Fortnight. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ^ Ford, Rebecca (2012-05-25). "Cannes 2012: 'No' Takes Top Prize at Directors' Fortnight". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ "Oscars: Hollywood announces 85th Academy Award nominations". BBC News. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
- ^ Pablo Larraín on TVGuide.com.
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