Isabel Coixet Castillo is a Spanish film director.
22 Facts About Isabel Coixet
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Isabel Coixet is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials.
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Isabel Coixet was born in Sant Adria del Besos next to Barcelona on 9 April 1960.
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Isabel Coixet continued in the world of advertising, standing out as creative director of the agency JWT.
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Isabel Coixet won several accolades for her spots, but the ads did not fulfill her expectations.
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In 1988, Isabel Coixet made her debut as a scriptwriter and director in Demasiado Viejo Para Morir Joven.
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Isabel Coixet received her second nomination at the Goya Awards for Best Original Screenplay.
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Isabel Coixet then continued working with Polley as her lead actress with the film The Secret Life of Words, which was released in 2005 and starred Tim Robbins and Javier Camara.
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In 2005, Isabel Coixet joined eighteen other international filmmakers, among them Gus Van Sant, Walter Salles and Joel and Ethan Cohen, to make the groundbreaking collective project Paris, je t'aime, in which each director explored a different Paris quarter.
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Isabel Coixet has made prominent documentaries on major themes, such as Invisibles, which was selected for the "Panorama" section of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, about the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders.
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In 2008, Isabel Coixet released Elegy, which was filmed in Vancouver and produced by Lakeshore Entertainment.
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That same year, Isabel Coixet shot and produced Ayer no termina nunca which premiered in the Panorama Section of the 63rd edition of the International Film Festival of Berlin.
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Isabel Coixet is always interested in shooting documentaries to denounce what she doesn't agree with or to give voice to her protagonists.
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Isabel Coixet shot a documentary in Chad at the end of 2014 narrated by Juliette Binoche entitled Talking about Rose: Prisoner of Hissene Habre.
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The script adapted by Isabel Coixet was based on the novel of the same name by the English writer Penelope Fitzgerald and received the prize for the best literary adaptation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017.
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In February 2019, Isabel Coixet released the film Elisa y Marcela in collaboration with Netflix.
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On 4 September 2020, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that Isabel Coixet would be awarded the National Film Award 2020.
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Isabel Coixet created her own production company in 2000, Miss Wasabi, with the vocation to self-produce her own more personal projects.
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Isabel Coixet has a daughter, Zoe, born in 1997, and lives in Barcelona with her boyfriend, Reed Brody, a human rights lawyer.
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In October 2012 Isabel Coixet was one of the signatories of the "Call to the federalist and left-wing Catalonia" manifesto, asking the Catalan left-wing for an unabashed federalist stance vis-a-vis the State.
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Isabel Coixet openly declared her opposition to the October 2017 independence referendum held in Catalonia, signing another manifesto calling on people not to take part in the vote.
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Isabel Coixet's trademark is her filmmaking technique, which was derived from her background in advertising, where visuals, color, and composition are carefully constructed.