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Inés Bortagaray

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Inés Bortagaray
Bortagaray in 2019
Bortagaray in 2019
Born (1975-06-22) 22 June 1975 (age 49)
Salto Department, Uruguay
OccupationWriter, screenwriter, professor

Inés Bortagaray Sabarrós (born 22 May 1975) is a Uruguayan writer and screenwriter with a degree in communication studies.

She is the author of Ahora tendré que matarte (2001) and Prontos, listos, ya (2006 and republished in 2010), and has had stories included in anthologies such as Palabras errantes and Pequeñas Resistencias 3, antología del nuevo cuento sudamericano.[1] She has written various screenplays, one of which won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Life

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With her three siblings, she frequented the Ariel, Metropol, and Sarandí movie theaters in Salto and had her first encounters with the world of film, which she later deepened in Montevideo with her fellow communications students and visits to Cinemateca Uruguaya.[2]

She worked as a reporter for Posdata and carried out various projects with the design studio Monocromo, including the Banco de Seguros del Estado almanacs (2009-2015).

She runs a screenplay workshop for the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes audiovisual media program in Playa Hermosa, Maldonado Department.

Work

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Books

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  • Ahora tendré que matarte (2001, Cauce Editorial, Flexes Terpines collection, managed by writer Mario Levrero)
  • Prontos, listos, ya (2006, Artefato)

Films

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Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Bastos, Silvia. "Agencia Literaria" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  2. ^ Faraone, Diego. "Entrevista Guía 50" (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Sundance Film Festival". Archived from the original on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2016.