Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Catalan actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Biography Balletbò-Coll earned a degree in analytical chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona, and later worked as a journalist from 1982 to 1986. She subsequently worked as a translator in the United States, where she earned a Master's degree in cinematography from Columbia University in New York City on a Fulbright-LaCaixa scholarship.
Cinematographic career After Balletbò-Coll worked in multiple American advertising agencies, she founded Costabrava Films with Ana Simón Cerezo, with their first movie, Costa Brava, being released in 1995, which was very successful at Frameline Film Festival.
In 2006, she was awarded with the National Film Award of Catalonia,Noticia sobre los Premios Nacionales de la Generalidad de Cataluña (en catalán) granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya for the production of her film Sévigné.Crítica sobre la película (en catalán) The film also won the grand prix of the Créteil International Women's Film Festival in 2006.
Filmography
2004: Sévigné 1998: Cariño, he enviado los hombres a la luna! 1995: Costa Brava 1992: Intrepidíssima (short film) 1991: Harlequin Exterminator (short film)
Awards
Butaca Awards
YearCategoryMovieResult2005Best Catalan MovieSévigné2003Best Catalan ActressSévigné
Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival
YearCategoryMovieResult2006Best Feature FilmSévigné1996Best Feature FilmCosta Brava
References
External links
Article about her in gaybarcelona.com