ISABEL COIXET
Filmmaker, screenwrirer, writer and photographer
1960, Barcelona, Spain
Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter, translator and writer, she started
making films when she received a 8mm camera for her First Communion. She has not stopped filming and being awarded for it ever since.
Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet always carries along a camera during her shootings.
Filmography
2020 Nieva en Benidorm (It Snows in Benidorm)
2019 Foodie Love
2019 Elisa y Marcela
2017 The Bookshop (La librería)
2015 Nobody wants the night (Nadie quiere la noche)
2015 Learning to drive (Learning to Drive)
2013 Another me (Mi otro yo)
2013 Ayer no termina nunca
2011 Escuchando al juez Garzón
2009 Mapa de los Sonidos de Tokio (Map of the Sounds of Tokyo)
2008 Elegy
2006 La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words)
2005 La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words)
2003 Mi vida sin mí (My Life Without Me)
1998 A los que aman
1989 Things I never told you (Cosas que nunca te dije)
1968 Demasiado viejo para morir joven, debut as filmmaker and screenwwriter
Goya awards
2012 Goya Award Winner for Best Documentary Film for ‘Escuchando al juez Garzón’
2008 Goya Award Winner for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Bookshop
2007 Goya Award Winner for Best Documentary for ‘Invisibles’
2006 Goya Award Winner for Best Film, Best Director Best Script and Best Artistic Direction for the film ‘The Secret Life of Words’
2003 Goya Award Winner for Best Adapted Film for the film ‘My Life Without Me’