Jacobo Penzo

Jacobo Penzo (born 1948 in Carora; died 2020 in Caracas), was a Venezuelan filmmaker,[1] best known for his drama piece The House of Water, shown in the Directors' Fortnight section[2][3] of the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. The film also represented Venezuela in the Best Foreign Language Film competition at the 57th Academy Awards.[4] Penzo is also a painter and a writer.[5]

Biography

Jacobo Penzo was born in Carora Lara, Venezuela on September 22, 1948. He moved to Caracas with his family in 1957. After high school he studied journalism at the Central University of Venezuela.[5] From 1999 to 2002 Penzo was President of the Venezuelan National Cinematheque Foundation (Cinemateca Nacional) [6][7]

Awards

• Venezuelan National Cinema Award (Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela) in 2002.[8][9]
• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2007 in recognition to Penzo´s artistic talents [10][11]

Films

• The House of Water ("La Casa de Agua"), 1984
• Música Nocturna [12] ("Night Music"), 1987
• En territorio Extranjero[13] ("On A Foreign Land") 1993
• Borrador[14][15] ( "Draft" ) co-production, 2006
• Cabimas donde todo comenzó[16] ("Cabimas, the burst") 2012

Documentaries

Some of Penzo´s documentaries are:

• Falso Retrato de Luis Alberto Crespo[17] (" Fake Portrait of LAC ") 2014
• El Profeta Olvidado[18] ( "The Forgotten Prophet" ), co-production with Carlos Azpúrua[19] 2003
• Maracaibo Blues[20] 2001
• Algunas Preguntas a la Mujeres[21] (Questions to Women) 1984
• El Silencio de la Memoria ("The Silence of the Past") 1986
• La Pastora Resiste[22] ("The Old Town Battle") 1982
• El Afinque de Marín ("The Barrio Beat")[23][24] 1980
• Tecnología para el hombre[8] ("Progress for The People") 1986
• El Compadre Antonio[8] ("Saint Anthony: a Friend of the People") 1982
• Dos Ciudades[8] ("Two Cities") 1982

Writings

• Veinte años por un Cine de Author,[25] essay, 2000
• Que Habrá sido de Herbert Marcuse,[26] short stories, 2014
• Rumores,[27] poems, 2015

References

1. "Jacobo Penzo Writer, Director, Assistant Director". IMDb. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
2. "La Quinzaine". Quinzaine Des Realizateurs. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
3. "La Casa De Agua". Quinzaine Des Realisateurs. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
4. "Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". IMDb. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
5. "Jacobo Penzo". cineyarte.es.tl. Retrieved Oct 28, 2016.
6. "National Cinematheque Venezuela". clippel.com. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
7. Milagros, Socorro. "El cine según Jacobo Penzo". milagrossocorro.com. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
8. "Jacobo Penzo Premio Nacional de Cultura". www.casadelartista.gob.ve. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
9. "Jacobo Penzo obtiene el Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela". www.letralia.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
10. "Entrega de las insignias de Caballero del Orden de las Artes y las Letras a los Sres. Jacobo Penzo y Antonio López Ortega". Ambfrance. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
11. "Remise des insignes de Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres à MM. Jacobo Penzo et Antonio López Ortega". www.ambafrance-ve.org. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
12. "Música Nocturna". www.imdb.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
13. "En territorio extranjero". www.imdb.com. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
14. "Coproducción Borrador". Programa Ibermedia.
15. "En el filme "Borrador" un cineasta es protagonista". El Comercio. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
16. "Cabimas, donde todo comenzó REGRESO A LAS RAÍCES, por Alfonso Molina". Ideas de Babel. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
17. ""Falso retrato" aborda la obra de Luis Alberto Crespo". El Universal. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
18. "SEE RANK Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso: el profeta olvidado". IMDb. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
19. "Carlos Azpúrua Director". IMDb. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
20. "Maracaibo Blues". clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
21. Quiroz, Li. "Algunas preguntas a las mujeres [película] /". SISBIV. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
22. "LA PASTORA RESISTE". Vereda - Arte de Venezuela. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
23. "El Afinque de Marín". DOCUVEN. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
24. "El afinque de Marín". Saber - UCAB. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
25. Dorante, Jacobo Penzo (2000). 20 años por un cine de autor, 1974 - 1994 : apuntes para la historia de la Asociación Nacional de Autores Cinematográficos ANAC (1. ed.). Caracas: ANAC. ISBN 980-07-6500-X. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
26. Penzo, Jacobo (2014). Que habrá sido de Herbert Marcuse. Caracas: Editorial Eclepsidra. ISBN 978-980-6480-55-1. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
27. Penzo, Jacobo (2014). Rumores. Caracas: Eclepsidra Editorial. ISBN 978-980-6480-58-2.