Pablo Illanes

Pablo Illanes
Born (1973-03-12) 12 March 1973
Santiago, Chile
Occupation Author, screenwriter, journalist, filmmaker
Language Chilean Spanish
Nationality Chilean

Pablo Andrés Illanes Tapia (born March 12, 1973) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter, journalist and film director, principally known as the creator of various successful telenovelas, including Adrenalina, Machos, Alguien te mira, ¿Dónde está Elisa? and Conde Vrolok.

Biography

Illanes studied journalism at Diego Portales University. After establishing himself as a film critic in Wikén, the weekend supplement of the newspaper El Mercurio, and at the defunct TV station Canal 2 Rock & Pop, he wrote his first telenovela, Adrenalina (1996). It was aired on Canal 13. The telenovela generated controversy for its storyline based on fleeting teen romances at a high school in the "barrio alto" (upper district) of Santiago.

His second telenovela, Playa salvaje (1997), was the most watched telenovela of the decade on its channel. His initiation as a screenwriter came later, with Fuera de control (1999), which did not generate high television ratings but was lauded by critics; it became a cult classic, and would be reaired on two occasions.

After Piel canela (2001), a series which obtained weak ratings and critical reviews and caused a temporary pause of telenovela production on Canal 13, he reestablished himself with the successful Machos (2003), co-written with Coca Gómez and Sebastián Arrau. The telenovela had a broad social impact and generated substantial ratings, and won several awards including two Altazors.[1] It was extremely successful and would eventually be rebroadcast in Spain and various Latin American countries including Uruguay, where it was greatly popular.[2]

Illanes then worked at Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) where he wrote the soap operas Destinos cruzados (2004) and Versus (2005). He also adapted the script of the Argentinean soap opera Floricienta, whose Chilean version, Floribella, premiered in 2006. Illanes created the first Chilean suspense TV series, Alguien te mira, based on the activities of a psychopath in the affluent section of Santiago, gaining the largest ever audience for a nighttime television series. This success allowed him to work on a new project, ¿Dónde está Elisa? a crime/suspense series inspired by real cases such as those of Madeleine McCann and Jorge Matute Johns. After that series, he wrote Conde Vrolok, a vampire telenovela set in the 19th century and inspired by Dracula. He is also the author of the scripts for Témpano (2011).

He entered the field of literature with Una Mujer Brutal[3] and fragilidad. As of 2013, Illanes is working on a third novel, Los Amantes Caníbales, named after his blog.

Illanes directed Baby Shower (2011), a horror film starring actresses such as Ingrid Isensee, Claudia Burr, Francisca Merina, Sofía García, and Patricia López from several of his previous series.[4] He filmed his second feature-length film, Videoclub, in late 2012. It stars Pedro Campos, Luciana Echeverría, and Ingrid Cruz, and its soundtrack was produced by the band Pánico.[5]

Illanes became a screenwriter with Telemundo in 2013, and is contracted to the company for three years.[6]

Filmography

Film

Television

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Mariana Loyola and Herval Abreu, pages of the Altazor Awards, 2004; accessed 12/10/2012.
  2. ↑ Y vamos abriendo puertas, Tele Uruguaya, March 2012; accessed 12/10/2012
  3. ↑ «Una mujer brutal», de Pablo Illanes ("Una mujer brutal", by Pablo Illanes), review originally published in Caras magazine, November of 2000; reproduced in El Diario del Antifunes (The Newspaper of the Antifunes), 11.01.2012; acceso 10.12.2012
  4. ↑ Daniel Villalobos. Film critic: "Baby Shower", La Tercera, 14.01.2011; accessed 10.12.2012.
  5. ↑ Claudio Vergara. Pánico hará banda sonora de la nueva cinta de Pablo Illanes (Pánico will make the soundtrack of the new film by Pablo Illanes), La Tercera, 12/10/2012; accessed the same day.
  6. ↑ Cecilia Gutiérrez. Pablo Illanes deja TVN y llega a acuerdo por tres años con la cadena Telemundo (Pablo Illanes leaves TV and reaches an agreement for three years with the Telemundo channel), La Tercera, 12/22/2012; accessed the same day.
  7. ↑ 2002, page of the Festival Santiago a Mil; accessed 12/10/2012.

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