Rodrigo Plá (born 9 June 1968 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan screenwriter and director. He is best known for his 2007 film La Zona (The Zone).
Rodrigo Plá | |
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 Rodrigo Plá in 2008. | |
| Born | Rodrigo Plá 9 June 1968 |
| Years active | 1988 – present |
Plá studied photography, screenwriting and direction at the Centro de capacitación cinematográfica in Mexico City, where he has lived since he was 9 years old. In 1988 he directed his first short-film.[1]
His 2012 film The Delay was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.[2]
Rodrigo is married to writer Laura Santullo, who has written all the screenplays for all four of his full-length feature films, including his latest, Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas ("A Monster With a Thousand Heads"), which was based on her novel by the same name.[3]
Filmography
edit- Novia Mía, 1996
- El ojo en la nuca, 2001
- La Zona, 2007
- Desierto adentro, 2008
- Revolución, 2010
- The Delay, 2012
- Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas, 2015
- The Other Tom, 2021
References
edit- ^ Evene - Rodrigo Plá
- ^ "La demora, al Oscar por Uruguay". 180.com.uy. 180. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ "Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo on Collaboration and ‘A Monster’" Retrieved 31 August 2016
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