#Isabel Coixet
Just Three Features from Women Directors to Screen in Competition at San Sebastián 2022
Laura Mora, Marian Mathias, and Pilar Palomero are the only women who will be competing for the Golden Shell at this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival. The fest has added 12...
Isabel Coixet Will Head Venice Film Fest’s Horizons Jury
Isabel Coixet is heading to the Lido. Variety reports that the Spanish filmmaker will preside over the jury of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section, which is dedicated to unconventional,...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Will Topline Isabel Coixet Romance “Nobody’s Heart”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set to star in Isabel Coixet’s next feature. The “Morning Show” actress will star in “Nobody’s Heart,” a romance based on the life of Portuguese...
Quote of the Day: Isabel Coixet Encourages Emerging Filmmakers to “Embrace the Fog” in Awards Speech
The Spanish Ministry of Culture honored Isabel Coixet with its National Cinematography Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival last month. While accepting the prestigious award, which recognizes...
Isabel Coixet’s “Foodie Love” to Open International TV Fest Are You Series?
Isabel Coixet’s debut TV series, “Foodie Love,” is set to kick off the seventh edition of Are You Series?, an international TV series fest in Belgium. The HBO Europe title tells the...
Trailer Watch: Food Lovers Wine, Dine, & Fall in Love in Isabel Coixet’s “Foodie Love”
A dating app brings foodies together in the first trailer for Isabel Coixet’s upcoming HBO Europe series. Titled “Foodie Love,” the eight-part, half-hour comedy sees a woman (Laia...
Cannes: Isabel Coixet Is in Pre-Production on Her Next Pic
Isabel Coixet has yet another project in the pipeline. According to Variety, the Spanish filmmaker is in pre-production on “It Snows in Benidorm” (“Nieva en Benidorm”). Details were...
Isabel Coixet Writing and Directing Her First TV Series
Isabel Coixet fans and food lovers, rejoice. The “Bookshop” and “Elegy” filmmaker is writing and directing a TV show about a couple who meet via an app for foodies. The HBO...
Isabel Coixet Has a Drama About Spain’s First Lesbian Marriage On the Way
In just over a month “The Bookshop” hits U.S. theaters, but writer-director Isabel Coixet is already well on her way to completing her follow-up project. The Spanish filmmaker is...
Trailer Watch: Emily Mortimer Fights to Keep Her Business Open in “The Bookshop”
Emily Mortimer refuses to kowtow to Patricia Clarkson in a new trailer for “The Bookshop.” “You have to succeed if you give everything you have,” says Florence (Mortimer). And...
Two Female-Centric, Women-Directed Features Receive Most Goya Nominations This Year
A pair of films by and about women dominate this year’s Goya nominations. Also known as Spain’s Oscars, the Goyas have recognized Paula Ortiz’s Lorca adaptation “The Bride” with the most...
Isabel Coixet’s Production Company Announces 5 Upcoming Women-Directed Titles
The upcoming slate of “Learning to Drive” director Isabel Coixet’s production company, Miss Wasabi Films, has been unveiled. Among the titles will be five female-helmed features, including...
‘Learning to Drive’ Helmer Isabel Coixet on Middle-Age Life Lessons, the Hazards of Shooting in a Car
“Learningto Drive” is a lovely meditation on aging, expectations and learning to livelife on your own terms. Patricia Clarkson stars as Wendy, a writer whose husbandleaves her literally stranded...
Women Win Majority of Awards at Provincetown Film Fest: Coixet, Green, Bianco and More
Women directors won big at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival, taking home five of the eight prizes awarded. Isabel Coixet’s “Learning to Drive” landed the HBO Audience...
Trailer Watch: Patricia Clarkson Takes the Wheel in Isabel Coixet’s ‘Learning to Drive’
A trailer has been released for Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s “Learning to Drive,” a romantic comedy starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley. The film, which premiered at the Toronto...
Quote of the Day: Director Isabel Coixet on the Importance of Financing Women-Helmed Films
Female filmmakers face countless barriers to success in the film industry, but chief among them is the bizarre reluctance of many financiers to invest in projects helmed by women. Spanish director...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Isabel Coixet — ‘Learning to Drive’
Isabel Coixet was born in Barcelona.Since her debut feature, Too Oldto Die Young (1989), she has directedThings I Never Told You (1996), My LifeWithout Me (2003), The Secret Life of Words...
The Big O: Watch Out, Toronto — The Great Kate, Dame Maggie, and Some Stellar Female Directors Are Coming Your Way
Lastyear’s Toronto International Film Festival provided invaluable lift-off to atleast three female-driven movies that landed in the 2013 Oscar race: Gravity, Philomena,and August:...
Only 10% of Toronto Lineup So Far Directed by Women
The Toronto International Film Festival (September 4–14) announced an initial lineup of 59 films today, and only a measly six of them are from women directors, including an anthology film. Danish...