Joaquim Jordà
Joaquim JORDÀ (1935-2006, Spain) studied Law in Barcelona and was educated in Film in Madrid. He made his first short film, Diá de muertos, in 1960. Together with Jacinto Esteva Grewe he directed Dante no es únicamente severo (1967), which can be regarded as the manifest of the Escuela de Barcelona. Besides working as a director, he was a screenwriter, literary translator and professor. In 2006 he passed away in Barcelona at the age of 70. He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía posthumously in 2006.
Filmography
Día de muertos (1960, short doc), Dante no es únicamente severo (1967, co-dir), Portogallo, paese tranquilo (1969, short doc), María Aurèlia Capmany parla d'un lloc entre els morts (1969, doc), Lenin vivo (1970, short doc), Numax presenta… (1980, doc), El encargo del cazador (1990, doc), Un cos al bosc/A Body in the Woods (1996), Mones com la Becky/Monkeys Like Becky (1999), De nens (2003), Veinte años no es nada (2004, doc), Descontrol urbano (2006, doc), Más allá del espejo (2006, doc)