Jaime Rosales | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1998–present |
Jaime Rosales (born 1970 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, (Australia).
He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del día that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, La soledad.
His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujirō Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots. He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad, film that received the Goya for Best Film too.
His 2012 film Dream and Silence was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and also appeared at the 56th London Film Festival.[1][2] His 2014 film Beautiful Youth was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
- ^ Leffler, Rebecca (24 April 2012). "Cannes 2012: Michel Gondry's 'The We & The I' to Open Director's Fortnight". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
- ^ "2012 Selection". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Directors' Fortnight. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
- ^ "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 18 April 2014.