Isabel Coixet

Isabel Coixet is a film director, screenwriter, translator and writer. She started making films when she was given an 8mm camera for her first holy communion. After graduating in History from the University of Barcelona, she dedicated herself to advertising, an activity that led her to win multiple awards and to found her own production company in 2000, Miss Wasabi Films. In 1989 she debuted as screenwriter and film director with the TV drama Demasiado viejo para morir joven (Too Old to Die so Young), which earned hera nomination for the Best new director at the Goya Awards. Numerous feature films would follow, many of them awarded with Goyas. In 2015 she received the Chevalier des arts et des lettres Medal from the French Ministry of Culture and in 2020 the National Film Award. In 2022 she premiered El sostre groc (The Yellow Ceiling), nominated for the Best Documentary at the Goya Awards.

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