Marta Balletbò-Coll
Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Catalan actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Also recorded as Marta Balletbo-Coll
Marta Balletbò-Coll
- Name
- Marta Balletbò-Coll
- Born
- 1960
- Birthplace
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia
- Occupation
- Film actress, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer
- Nationality
- Spain
- Education
- University of Barcelona · Columbia University School of the Arts
- Languages
- Spanish · Catalan
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Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Catalan actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
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• Name — Marta Balletbò-Coll • Born — 1960 • Birthplace — L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia • Occupation — Film actress, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer
Biography
Biography
Balletbò-Coll earned a degree in analytical chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona, and later worked as a journalist from 1982 to 1986. She subsequently worked as a translator in the United States, where she earned a Master's degree in cinematography from Columbia University in New York City on a Fulbright-LaCaixa scholarship.
Cinematographic career
Cinematographic career
After Balletbò-Coll worked in multiple American advertising agencies, she founded Costabrava Films with Ana Simón Cerezo, with their first movie, Costa Brava, being released in 1995, which was very successful at Frameline Film Festival. In 2006, she was awarded with the National Film Award of Catalonia, granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya for the production of her film Sévigné. The film also won the grand prix of the Créteil International Women's Film Festival in 2006.
Filmography
Filmography
• 2004: Sévigné • 1998: Cariño, he enviado los hombres a la luna! • 1995: Costa Brava • 1992: Intrepidíssima (short film) • 1991: Harlequin Exterminator (short film)
Awards
• Butaca Awards • Year — Category — Movie — Result • 2005 — Best Catalan Movie — Sévigné • 2003 — Best Catalan Actress — Sévigné • Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival • Year — Category — Movie — Result • 2006 — Best Feature Film — Sévigné • 1996 — Best Feature Film — Costa Brava
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