Jacobo Penzo

Jacobo Penzo (1948 in Carora), is a Venezuelan filmmaker,^[1] best known for his drama piece The House of Water, shown in the Directors' Fortnight section^[2][3] of the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. The film also represented Venezuela in the Best Foreign Language Film competition at the 57th Academy Awards.^[4] Penzo is also a painter and a writer.^[5]

Biography

Jacobo Penzo was born in Carora Lara, Venezuela on the 22nd of September 1948. He moved to Caracas with his family in 1957. After high school he studied jornalism at the Central University of Venezuela.^[5] From 1999 to 2002 Penzo was President of the Venezuelan National Cinematheque Foundation (Cinemateca Nacional) ^[6][7]

Awards

• Venezuelan National Cinema Award (Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela) in 2002.^[8][9]

• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2007 in recognition to Penzo´s artistic talents ^[10][11]

Films

• The House of Water ("La Casa de Agua"), 1984

• Música Nocturna ^[12] ("Night Music"), 1987

• En territorio Extranjero^[13] ("On A Foreign Land") 1993

• Borrador^[14][15] ( "Draft" ) co-production, 2006

• Cabimas donde todo comenzó^[16][17] ("Cabimas, the burst") 2012

Documentaries

Some of Penzo´s documentaries are:

• Falso Retrato de Luis Alberto Crespo^[18][19] (" Fake Portrait of LAC ") 2014

• El Profeta Olvidado^[20] ( "The Forgotten Prophet" ), co-production with Carlos Azpúrua^[21] 2003

• Maracaibo Blues^[22] 2001

• Algunas Preguntas a la Mujeres^[23] (Questions to Women) 1984

• El Silencio de la Memoria ("The Silence of the Past") 1986

• La Pastora Resiste^[24] ("The Old Town Battle") 1982

• El Afinque de Marín ("The Barrio Beat")^[25][26] 1980

• Tecnología para el hombre^[8] ("Progress for The People") 1986

• El Compadre Antonio^[8] ("Saint Anthony: a Friend of the People") 1982

• Dos Ciudades^[8] ("Two Cities") 1982

Writings

• Veinte años por un Cine de Author,^[27] essay, 2000

• Que Habrá sido de Herbert Marcuse,^[28] short stories, 2014

• Rumores,^[29] poems, 2015

References

1. "Jacobo Penzo Writer, Director, Assistant Director url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672449/". IMDb.
2. "La Quinzaine". Quinzaine Des Realizateurs. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
3. "La Casa De Agua". Quinzaine Des Realisateurs. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
4. "Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". IMDb. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
5. "Jacobo Penzo". http://cineyarte.es.tl. Retrieved April 22, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
6. "National Cinematheque Venezuela". http://clippel.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
7. Milagros, Socorro. "El cine según Jacobo Penzo". http://milagrossocorro.com. Retrieved April 18, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
8. "Jacobo Penzo Premio Nacional de Cultura". http://www.casadelartista.gob.ve. Retrieved April 18, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
9. "Jacobo Penzo obtiene el Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela". http://www.letralia.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
10. "Entrega de las insignias de Caballero del Orden de las Artes y las Letras a los Sres. Jacobo Penzo y Antonio López Ortega". Ambfrance. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
11. "Remise des insignes de Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres à MM. Jacobo Penzo et Antonio López Ortega". http://www.ambafrance-ve.org. Retrieved April 24, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
12. "Música Nocturna". http://www.imdb.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
13. "En territorio extranjero". http://www.imdb.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
14. "Coproducción Borrador". Programa Ibermedia.
15. "En el filme "Borrador" un cineasta es protagonista". El Comercio. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
16. "CABIMAS: DONDE TODO COMENZÓ". TVES. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
17. "Cabimas, donde todo comenzó REGRESO A LAS RAÍCES, por Alfonso Molina". Ideas de Babel. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
18. "Con un falso retrato audiovisual Jacobo Penzo le rinde un tributo al poeta Luis Alberto Crespo". Correo del Orinoco. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
19. ""Falso retrato" aborda la obra de Luis Alberto Crespo". El Universal. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
20. "SEE RANK Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso: el profeta olvidado". IMBd. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
21. "Carlos Azpúrua Director". IMBd. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
22. "Maracaibo Blues". clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
23. Quiroz, Li. "Algunas preguntas a las mujeres [película] /". SISBIV. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
24. "LA PASTORA RESISTE". Vereda - Arte de Venezuela. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
25. "El Afinque de Marín". DOCUVEN. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
26. "El afinque de Marín". Saber - UCAB. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
27. Dorante, Jacobo Penzo (2000). 20 años por un cine de autor, 1974 - 1994 : apuntes para la historia de la Asociación Nacional de Autores Cinematográficos ANAC (1. ed.). Caracas: ANAC. ISBN 980-07-6500-X. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
28. Penzo, Jacobo (2014). Que habrá sido de Herbert Marcuse. Caracas: Editorial Eclepsidra. ISBN 978-980-6480-55-1. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
29. Penzo, Jacobo (2014). Rumores. Caracas: Eclepsidra Editorial. ISBN 978-980-6480-58-2.