Ventura Pons

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Idiot Love (2004) — Director
2. Food of Love (2002) — Director
3. Caresses (1998) — Director
4. Beloved/Friend (1999) — Director
5. Year of Grace (2011) — Director
6. Barcelona (A Map) (2007) — Director
7. What's It All About (1995) — Director
8. Miss Dalí (2018) — Director
9. Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait (1978) — Director
10. What Do You Bet, Mari Pili? (1991) — Director
11. Adrift (2009) — Director
12. Aquesta nit o mai (1992) — Director
13. Actresses (1997) — Director
14. Anita Takes a Chance (2001) — Director
15. Life in the Abyss (2007) — Director
16. The Victor of Olot (1981) — Director
17. Wounded Animals (2006) — Director
18. Virus of Fear (2015) — Director
19. The Bigger, the Better (2017) — Director
20. A Thousand Fools (2011) — Director
21. The Blonde at the Bar (1987) — Director
22. Puta misèria! (1989) — Director
23. El gran Gato (2003) — Director
24. Ignasi M. (2014) — Director
25. Cola, Colita, Colassa (Oda a Barcelona) (2016) — Director
26. Be Happy! (2019) — Director
27. To Die (Or Not) (2000) — Director
28. Strangers (2008) — Director
29. Rosita, please! (1994) — Director
30. An Afternoon in Geneva (2013) — Director
31. Universal i faraona (2018) — Director
32. Oh, quina joia! (2016) — Director
33. Univers(o) Pecanins (2019) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait (1978) — Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
2. Cinema mon amour (2019) — Self
3. La Rambla: secrets d'un escenari (2011) — Self
4. Còmics (2015) — Self
5. La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català (2019) — Self