Patricia Ortega

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Patricia Ortega

Patricia Ortega (Venezuelan Spanish pronunciation: [paˈtɾisia oɾˈteɡa], born 1977) is a Venezuelan film director. She has won multiple accolades, particularly for her 2018 film Being Impossible.

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Patricia Ortega
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Ortega in 2017
Born1977 (age 4748)
Alma materEscuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión
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Years active2004–present
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Early life

Ortega says that she has been a movie lover since she was young, and so the decision to become a filmmaker was natural. She has studied journalism at university.[1]

Career

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Ortega studied at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba, specialising in Film Direction.[2]

After creating some short films, Ortega became president of the independent Venezuelan production company Mandrágora Films in 2009. In the next ten years, she made ten short fiction and documentary films with the company; in 2013 she directed her first feature film, El regreso (English: The Return), which saw a wide commercial release in cinemas across Venezuela.[2]

Her second feature film, Being Impossible (Spanish: Yo, imposible), however, did well internationally and has yet to be released in her home nation.[needs update][3] Ortega has drawn strength from Being Impossible during times of both personal and political upheaval.[4] She found out that Being Impossible would be screening at the US film festival South by Southwest on the same day that Juan Guaidó was declared Acting President of Venezuela; she found the news of the screening "beautiful", but this was overwhelmed by the political situation that "worried" her.[4] Ortega won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards at the Venezuelan Film Festival in June 2019 for Being Impossible.[5]

In 2019, she began development of her third feature film, Mamacruz.[2]

Personal life

Ortega was raised in a religious Catholic family, and says that she was always the black sheep of the family who did not follow traditional roles. She is divorced,[4] and has lived in Porlamar on the Venezuelan Caribbean island of Margarita since January 2019.[3]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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Year Event Award Work Result Ref.
2013 Festival Entre Largos y Cortos de Oriente (ELCO) Best First Feature The Return Won [7]
2014 Margarita Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival Golden Pelican for Best Fiction Film Won [8]
2018 Havana Film Festival Unete Award Being Impossible Special Recognition [3]
Valladolid International Film Festival Rainbow Spike Award Won [9]
2019 Femme Revolution Film Fest Best Construction of a Female Character Won [3]
Amsterdam LGBTI Film Festival Best Mix Feature Audience Award Won [3]
Reflections of Spanish and Latin American Cinema Festival Audience Award Won [3]
South by Southwest Gamechanger Award Nominated [10]
Venezuelan Film Festival Best Director Won [5]
Best Screenplay (with Enmanuel Chávez) Won
Houston International LGBTQ Film Festival Best Script (with Enmanuel Chávez) Won [11]
2020 Platino Awards Best Director Nominated [12]
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