Inés Bortagaray Sabarrós (born 22 May 1975) is a Uruguayan writer and screenwriter with a degree in communication studies. She is the author of ''Ahora tendré que matarte'' (2001) and ''Prontos, listos, ya'' (2006 and republished in 2010), and has had stories included in anthologies such as ''Palabras errantes'' and ''Pequeñas Resistencias 3, antología del nuevo cuento sudamericano.'' She has written various screenplays, one of which won an award at the

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Life

With her three siblings, she frequented the Ariel, Metropol, and Sarandí movie theaters in Salto and had her first encounters with the world of film, which she later deepened in

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with her fellow communications students and visits to Cinemateca Uruguaya. She worked as a reporter for ''Posdata'' and carried out various projects with the design studio Monocromo, including the

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almanacs (2009-2015). She runs a screenplay workshop for the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes audiovisual media program in

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Work

Books

* ''Ahora tendré que matarte'' (2001, Cauce Editorial, Flexes Terpines collection, managed by writer

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) * ''Prontos, listos, ya'' (2006, Artefato)

Films

* '' Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine'' (2020) as Elsa * '' Mi amiga del parque'' (2015, screenplay with

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) * ''Mujer conejo'' (2010, screenplay with

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) * '' La vida útil'' (2010, screenplay with

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) * ''Luna con dormilones'' (screenplay, Pablo Uribe film that participated in the 2012-2013 Montevideo Biennial and won the "El Azahar" grand prize at the tenth Salto Art Biennial) * ''El tiempo pasa'' (2013, screenplay) * ''Una novia errante'' (2006, feature film screenplay with

) * ''Otra historia del mundo'' (2017, screenplay, feature film based on the novel ''Alivio de luto'' by Mario Delgado Aparaín, with the author and Guillermo Casanova) * ''El fin del mundo'' (television series, 13 episodes, with Adrián Biniez, original idea with Juan Pablo Rebella and

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) * Eight short testimonials for TV Ciudad in Montevideo about

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, first sexual relations, first childbirth, and menopause (2001, direction, research, and production) * ''Tokyo Boogie'' (participated in writing the screenplay, Pablo Casacuberta and Yuki Goto)

Awards

* The screenplay for ''Tokyo Boogie'' was a finalist for Latin America at the 2001

and in 2002 it received the FONA (''Fondo para el Fomento y Desarrollo de la Producción Audiovisual en Uruguay'') * The film ''Una novia errante'' received the ''Cine en Construcción de la Industria'' award at the 54th

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in 2006. * Received the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting at the

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for her work on the film '' Mi amiga del parque''.

References

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