Jacobo Penzo (born 1948 in
Carora), is a Venezuelan
filmmaker
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...
,
best known for his
drama
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piece ''
The House of Water'', shown in the
Directors' Fortnight
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section
of the
Cannes Film Festival
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in 1984. The film also represented Venezuela in the
Best Foreign Language Film competition at the
57th Academy Awards
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.
Penzo is also a painter and a writer.
Biography
Jacobo Penzo was born in Carora
Lara, Venezuela on September 22, 1948. He moved to Caracas with his family in 1957. After high school he studied journalism at the
Central University of Venezuela
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.
From 1999 to 2002 Penzo was President of the Venezuelan National
Cinematheque
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typica ...
Foundation (Cinemateca Nacional)
Awards
*Venezuelan National Cinema Award (Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela) in 2002.
*
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the
Government of France in 2007 in recognition to Penzo´s ''artistic talents''
Films
*
The House of Water ("La Casa de Agua"), 1984
*Música Nocturna
("Night Music"), 1987
*En territorio Extranjero
("On A Foreign Land") 1993
*Borrador
( "Draft" ) co-production, 2006
*Cabimas donde todo comenzó
("Cabimas, the burst") 2012
Documentaries
Some of Penzo´s documentaries are:
*Falso Retrato de Luis Alberto Crespo
(" Fake Portrait of LAC ") 2014
*El Profeta Olvidado
( "The Forgotten Prophet" ), co-production with Carlos Azpúrua
2003
*Maracaibo Blues
2001
*Algunas Preguntas a la Mujeres
(Questions to Women) 1984
*El Silencio de la Memoria ("The Silence of the Past") 1986
*La Pastora Resiste
("The Old Town Battle") 1982
*El Afinque de Marín ("The Barrio Beat")
1980
*Tecnología para el hombre
("Progress for The People") 1986
*El Compadre Antonio
("Saint Anthony: a Friend of the People") 1982
*Dos Ciudades
("Two Cities") 1982
Writings
*Veinte años por un Cine de Author,
essay, 2000
*Que Habrá sido de
Herbert Marcuse,
short stories, 2014
*Rumores,
poems, 2015
References
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1948 births
Living people
Venezuelan cinematographers
Venezuelan film directors