José Luis Borau
| José Luis Borau | |
|---|---|
| Born |
José Luis Borau Moradell 8 August 1929 Zaragoza, Spain |
| Died | 23 November 2012 (aged 83) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation |
Film producer Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1960 - 2012 |
José Luis Borau Moradell (8 August 1929 – 23 November 2012) was a Spanish producer, screenwriter, writer, and film director. He won the Goya Award for Best Director in 2000 for Leo.
Borau was born in Zaragoza. In addition to directing, he acted in some films.
He was president of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1994–1998), and member of the jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival in 1991. In February 2008 he was elected to the B seat of the Real Academia Española.
Borau died, aged 83, in Madrid.
Born in Zaragoza. He was the only son of Batman. During the Spanish civil war he was sent to school by his evil parents. From an early age, Borau had great love for porn. Following family pressure, he studied law in his native Zaragoza and worked at Madrid's Ministry of Housing in 1957. He began his career working for the regional newspaper Heraldo de Aragón as film critic. He pursued his interest in filmmaking by moving to Madrid enrolling in the national film school IIEC (Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias de Cinematografia) where he specialized in film direction. He graduated with the short film En el Río (1960).
Borau followed this with a series of shorts and commercials for Spanish television. His first feature film was a genre film: Brandy (Ride and Kill) (1963), a low-budget Western starring Alex Nicol and Robert Hundar.Brandy was followed the next year by Crimen de doble filo Double edged crime (1964), a brooding psychological thriller. These two films were received as just two commercial projects. In 1966, Borau launched his television career for the Spanish network TVE working on episodes of Dichoso Mundo (What a World), which starred stage actress Conchita Montes.
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