AWARDS 2011
European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages
Mariela Besuievsky, the Madrid-based producer of Juan José Campanella’s Oscar-winning The Secret In Their Eyes, has taken the Prix Eurimages at this year’s European Film Awards
Mariela Besuievsky
The winner of the fifth European Co-Produc- tion Award — Prix Eurimages is Mariela Besuievsky, an outstanding and dedicated pro- ducer who has always joined forces with col- leagues in Europe and beyond to develop, produce and promote European cinema. An award acknowledging the decisive role
of co-productions in the European film indus- try, this year’s Prix Eurimages was announced at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain in November. A partner of Spain’s Tornasol Films and the
producer and executive producer of more than 40 movies, Besuievsky’s filmography includes titles such as the Oscar-winning The Secret In Their Eyes by Juan José Campanella; The Last Circus and The Oxford Murders, both by Alex de la Iglesia; and Ana Piterbarg’s Everyone Has A Plan starring Viggo Mortensen and now in post production. Other titles Besuievsky has produced
include The Education Of Fairies by José Luis Cuerda, the Gerardo Herrero-directed films The Galindez File, Rough Winds
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and Silencio En La Nieve (now in post-produc- tion), Only Human by Dominic Harari and Teresa de Pelegri, Unconscious by Joaquin Oristrell and Your Next Life by Manuel Gutier- rez Aragon. Her international co-productions include
Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola, Triage by Oscar-winner Danis Tanovic and Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2006. Co-productions with Latin America include
No Turning Back by Miguel Cohan, which won the Golden Spike for best film at Valladolid in 2010, The Aura by Fabian Bielinsky, Machuca by Andres Wood, and Sisters by Julia Solomonoff. Besuievsky has also produced documenta-
ries such as Spoils Of War by David Blaustein and I Never Read Onetti by Pablo Dotta.
Eurimages is a support fund for the co-produc- tion, distribution and exhibition of European cinematographic works, established by the Coun- cil of Europe in 1988.
MARIELA BESUIEVSKY Born in Uruguay, Mariela Besuievsky now lives in Madrid. A graduate of the Municipal School of Dramatic Arts in Uruguay (EMAD), she studied film- making at EICTV, the international film and TV school in Cuba founded by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In Uruguay, she produced The Airship
by Pablo Dotta, which screened in Crit- ics’ Week in Cannes in 1994, as well as several shorts by the same director. In addition to her work as a producer
based in Spain, Besuievsky has taught production classes at Madrid’s cinema- tography and audiovisual school ECAM and at Cuba’s EICTV.
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