Name
Ventura Pons
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1945-07-25
Deathday
2024-01-08 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biography
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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.
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Known For
5.1
Six characters, contemporary archetypes of urban solitude, meet in an old apartment locate...
5.7
Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring the...
5.3
Pere Lluc is thirty five and is living an unclear period in his life. He finds out that on...
5.2
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealo...
5.7
Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the sto...
5.6
In the district of Gracia, in Barcelona, a nasty old woman shares a flat with a youn...
4.3
A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pére...
- 2019 Cinema mon amour as Self
- 2011 La Rambla: secrets d'un escenari as Self
- 1978 Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
- 2015 Còmics ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2019 La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català ( 2 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
