Belén Funes (born 1984) is a Catalan
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
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[Alfonso Rivera]
"Belén Funes putting the finishing touches to her second feature, Los Tortuga"
''Cineuropa'', 13 June 2024. She is most noted for her 2019 feature film debut ''
A Thief's Daughter (La hija de un ladrón)'', for which she won the
Gaudí Award for Best Director at the
12th Gaudí Awards
The 12th Gaudí Awards, organised by the Catalan Film Academy, were presented on 19 January 2020 at in Barcelona. Directed by Jordi Prat and produced by Dagoll Dagom, the gala was hosted by . The nominations were read by Anna Castillo and Oriol P ...
, and the
Goya Award
The Goya Awards () are Spain's main national annual film awards. They are presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
The first ceremony was held in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Ar ...
for
Best New Director
''Best New Director'' was an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle from its first inception in 1989 until discontinuing in 1996. There was no award in 1993.
1980s 1989
*Kenneth Branagh – ''Henry V''
**Runners-up: Steve Kloves – '' ...
at the
34th Goya Awards
The 34th Goya Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACCE), honored the best in Spanish films of 2019 and took place at the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Málaga on 25 January 2020 ...
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Born in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
,
Funes earned a degree from the
ESCAC and continued her filmmaking education in Cuba.
Filmography
*''
A Thief's Daughter (La hija de un ladrón)'' - 2019
*''
The Exiles (Los Tortuga)'' - 2024
References
External links
*
1974 births
Living people
Film directors from Barcelona
Spanish women film directors
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