Rodrigo Plá (born 9 June 1968 in
Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan screenwriter and director. He is best known for his 2007 film ''
La Zona'' (The Zone).
Plá studied photography, screenwriting and direction at the Centro de capacitación cinematográfica in
Mexico City
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, where he has lived since he was 9 years old. In 1988 he directed his first
short-film.
His 2012 film ''
The Delay'' was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the
Best Foreign Language Oscar at the
85th Academy Awards
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p ...
, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Rodrigo is married to writer Laura Santullo, who has written all the screenplays for all four of his full-length feature films, including his latest, ''
Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas'' ("A Monster With a Thousand Heads"), which was based on her novel by the same name.
"Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo on Collaboration and ‘A Monster’"
Retrieved 31 August 2016
Filmography
*''Novia Mía'', 1996
*''El ojo en la nuca'', 2001
*'' La Zona'', 2007
*'' Desierto adentro'', 2008
*''Revolución'', 2010
*'' The Delay'', 2012
*'' Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas'', 2015
*'' The Other Tom'', 2021
References
External links
On Rodrigo Plá
at La Jornada
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1968 births
Ariel Award winners
Best Director Ariel Award winners
Living people
Uruguayan film directors
Spanish-language film directors
Mass media people from Montevideo
Uruguayan people of Catalan descent
Uruguayan emigrants to Mexico
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