Isabel Herguera is an artist, filmmaker, cultural manager, professor, and critic. She has won more than 50 awards at various international film festivals.[1][2]
Isabel Herguera | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 |
| Nationality | Spain |
| Occupation | Film Director |
| Notable work | Sultana’s Dream |
She graduated from UPV-Bilbao, continued her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1988,[3] and obtained a master's degree at CalArts.[4] In her 1989 movies Safari and Song of the Round Trip animation, sculpture and video were merged and together created a special work of art.[1]
In 1994, she founded an animation studio in Los Angeles.[1]
In 2003, she returned to Spain from Los Angeles.[2] In 2003–2011, she was the director of Animac, the International Festival of Animated film of Catalonia in Lleida. She also coordinated the motion picture laboratory of the Arteleku art centre in Donostia-San Sebastian.[5][1]
Over the years, she has served as chair and jury member of various international film festivals.[6][7][8]
In 2005 she started as a teacher at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. As a guest animation professor, she worked at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. In 2017 she became a professor of the animation department in Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany.[2][4][3]
In 2012, she became one of the 12 most celebrated Basque filmmakers and directed one chapter of Kalebegiak, a movie that comprised 12 different perspectives on San Sebastián.[9]
Herguera's first feature film, Sultana's Dream, was released in 2023. The story is based on a 1905 dystopian fairy-tale by Bengali social activist Begum Rokeya.[10] In this movie she also combined different techniques to underline and emphasize the differences between storylines — watercolour, cut-outs of the shadow theatre and Mehndi.[2][11] While it was still in the project stage, the film won the 2022 TorinoFilmLab Audience Design Award of the European Work in Progress in Cologne platform[12] and received a €378,000 grant from the Spanish Film Institute.[13]
Filmography edit
- Safari (1989);
- Song of a Round Trip (1989);
- La Gallina Ciega (2005);
- Ámár (2010);
- Under the Pillow (2012 short);
- Winter Love (2015);
- Sailor's Grave (2016)
- Sultana's Dream (2023).
References edit
- ^ a b c d Male 2019, p. 36.
- ^ a b c d "Isabel Herguera". Marvin&Wayne Short Films. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ a b Rao, Snigdha (2020-10-05). "Isabel's India Affair". Animators Guild. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ a b "Illustrated Woman". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "Isabel Herguera". IFFR. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "La película búlgara 'Glory', mejor largometraje del Festival de Cine de Gijón 2016". La Vanduardia. 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Keslassy, Elsa (2015-04-28). "Annecy Animation Fest Unveils Lineup, Turns Spotlight on Women". Variety. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Petković, Vladan (2014-09-11). "Oleh Sentsov added to San Sebastián jury". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (2015-09-30). "Omnibus film Kalebegiak is under way". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Mayorga, Emilio (2017-05-19). "Spanish Women on the Verge of Breaking Out". Variety. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Olmo, Júlia (2023-09-24). "Isabel Herguera • Director of Sultana's Dream". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ Vena, Teresa (2022-10-21). "European Work in Progress Cologne announces its winners". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (2019-10-09). "Spain's ICAA announces the recipients of its selective production support". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
Sources edit
- Male, Alan (2019). A Companion to Illustration: Art and Theory. Wiley Blackwell. p. 136. ISBN 9781119185536.
- Bendazzi, Giannalberto (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-138-85482-6.
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