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Isabel Coixet Castillo is a Spanish film director.
Biography.
Isabel Coixet is a Spanish screenwriter and director.

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Isabel Coixet

With a degree in History from the University of Barcelona, Isabel Coixet began her career working in advertising and copywriting. She won several awards for her commercials, and in 2000 she founded her own production company, Miss Wasabi Films.
Her debut as a screenwriter and director was in 1989 with Too Old to Die Young, nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards. In 1996 she made her first film in English, Things I Never Told You. Her international success came in 2003 with the intimate drama My Life Without Me, with Sarah Polley in the lead role, with whom she worked again two years later in The Secret Life of Words, winner of four Goyas.

In addition to her vast filmography, she has also made outstanding documentaries such as Invisibles, Marea Blanca, Talking about Rose, and Listening to Judge Garzón ( Goya for Best Documentary) and the recent The Yellow Ceiling.

In 2009 she received the Gold Medal in Fine Arts, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports, and in 2015 the Chevalier des arts et des lettres Medal, awarded by

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Isabel Coixet

“The world is wide”, Isabel Coixet tells us, and putting limits on creativity is not an option for her. Much less if it is about cinema. That is why she has directed films in Spanish, English and French. Coixet uses the languages she knows interchangeably, because she expresses herself in the universal language of cinema. And she controls it so well that she has been recognized with the 2020 National Film Award.

With a career marked out by films, awards and creativity, Coixet has gone through the University School of Arts TAI to describe his shooting dynamics, the secrets of his career and offer a series of suggestions for young artists based on his experience.

His first contact with the world of audiovisual creation came somewhat by chance, since "I come from a family where there was no connection to cinema," he tells us. "As a child they gave me a Super 8 camera and I started making domestic shorts." And from that camera and with that childish enthusiasm, Isabel began to develop her creativity.

"Because of those things of fate, I started working as a creative

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Isabel Coixet

Isabel Coixet is a Spanish screenwriter and director. After having studied History at Barcelona University, she worked in advertising and made her debut as a screenwriter and director in Demasiado viejo para morir joven (Too Old to Die Young) in 1988. Since then, she has directed many feature films and documentaries, leading famous titles such as the Spanish-American romantic comedy-drama film Cosas que nunca te dije (Things I Never Told You) in 1996 and Mi vida sin mí (My Life Without Me) in 2003, a Spanish-Canadian production that tells the dramatic story of a young woman with a husband and two daughters who finds out she is going to die soon. The main actress in that film, Sarah Polley, continued working with Coixet in her next production, La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words,) a drama film that was hugely successful in the 2006 Goya Awards ceremony. In 2015, Nadie quiere la noche (Nobody Wants the Night) opened the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. She has direc