Actor

Ventura Pons

Directing

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.7

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Movies: 34Series: 2Crew credits: 32

TMDB ID: 43330

IMDb ID: nm0690532

Known for: Directing

Born: July 25, 1945

Died: January 8, 2024

Age: 78

Place of birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1978 - 2019

Years active: 42

Average TMDB rating: 5.29

Wikidata: Q2399329

Also known as

Bonaventura Pons i Sala • Ventura Pons i Sala

Other jobs

Director (23)Producer (3)Screenplay (3)Writer (3)

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb W Wikidata

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director. After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, 'Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait', which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Some of his movies have been produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S.A., founded in 1985 and he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the Berlin International Film Festival for many consecutive years. He began his movie career making comedies about local customs. Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Sergi Belbel, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Jordi Puntí, Ferran Torrent and Lluïsa Cunillé. In 1995 he was awarded the National Cinema Prize by the Government of Catalonia, which also awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2007.