Ventura Pons

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia  Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director After a decade as a theatre director Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977 Ocaña an Intermittent Portrait which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival Some of his movies have been produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla SA founded in 1985 and he has become one of the bestknown Catalan film directors His work has been shown at the best international film festivals most notably at the Berlin International Film Festival for many consecutive years He began his movie career making comedies about local customs Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó Josep Maria Benet i Jornet Sergi Belbel LluísAnton Baulenas Jordi Puntí Ferran Torrent and Lluïsa Cunillé In 1995 he was awarded the National Cinema Prize by the Government of Catalonia which also awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2007 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ventura Pons licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia