Screenwriter and film and television director Patricia Ferreira According to information provided to EFE by sources from CIMA, the women filmmakers and audiovisual media association of which she was a founding partner, she died in Madrid at the age of 65 this Wednesday.
Ferreira (Madrid, 1958), film and television screenwriter and director, directed films such as: ‘I know who you are’ or ‘The impatient alchemist’.
He graduated from the Department of Image Sciences and Journalism of the Complutense University of Madrid and after starting his professional life in the field of film journalism, He has developed an extensive career as a director in television fictional series and programs (such as the TV movie ‘Paradise’), cultural (such as ‘Treasure Island’ or ‘A Day in the Lives of Our Ancestors’) and documentaries (such as ‘Everyone is Music’, ‘The other side of silence’) ‘, ‘Heaven nearby’, ‘ ‘A country in a backpack’ or ‘Equinox’).
He directed his first fiction feature film in 2000.I know who you are‘ premiered at the Berlin Festival and for candidate Goya award best new director award.
Then they followed each otherThe impatient alchemist‘ (2002, Film Writers Guild award for best adaptation); ‘So don’t forget me‘ (2005, selected in Berlin and nominated for three Goya awards); ‘wild children‘ (2012, winner of the Biznaga de Oro award and best screenplay at the Malaga Festival) and ‘Thi Mai goes to Vietnam‘ (2017), his first comedy.
He was also the author of the short films ‘The First Day’, ‘Dawn of Misrak’ and ‘The Best Kept Secret’, as well as professor of Directing at the Community of the Film School of Madrid (ECAM) and member of the International Film Festival. Spanish Film Academy board of directors.
Filmmaker will be transported to the funeral home San Isidro de Madrid, where the ceremony will be held in the late afternoonCIMA sources stated.