Isabel Herguera

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Isabel Herguera
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Isabel Herguera
Born1961
NationalitySpain
OccupationFilm Director
Notable work Sultana’s Dream

Isabel Herguera is a Spanish artist, filmmaker, cultural manager, professor, and critic. She has won more than 50 awards at various international film festivals. [1] [2]

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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 Bangladeshi 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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Male 2019, p. 36.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Isabel Herguera". Marvin&Wayne Short Films. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  3. 1 2 Rao, Snigdha (2020-10-05). "Isabel's India Affair". Animators Guild. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  4. 1 2 "Illustrated Woman". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  5. "Isabel Herguera". IFFR. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  6. "La película búlgara 'Glory', mejor largometraje del Festival de Cine de Gijón 2016". La Vanduardia. 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  7. Keslassy, Elsa (2015-04-28). "Annecy Animation Fest Unveils Lineup, Turns Spotlight on Women". Variety. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  8. Petković, Vladan (2014-09-11). "Oleh Sentsov added to San Sebastián jury". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  9. Rivera, Alfonso (2015-09-30). "Omnibus film Kalebegiak is under way". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  10. Mayorga, Emilio (2017-05-19). "Spanish Women on the Verge of Breaking Out". Variety. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  11. Olmo, Júlia (2023-09-24). "Isabel Herguera • Director of Sultana's Dream". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  12. Vena, Teresa (2022-10-21). "European Work in Progress Cologne announces its winners". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  13. Rivera, Alfonso (2019-10-09). "Spain's ICAA announces the recipients of its selective production support". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-10-26.

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