Esteve Riambau awarded Film-History Award in the 12th Spanish Cinema Tribune

Esteve Riambau.
Esteve Riambau.
Culture
(20/05/2016)

The director of Filmoteca de Catalunya (Film archive of Catalonia), Esteve Riambau, has been awarded the Film-History Award for the best research for Fronthis book Las cosas que hemos visto. Welles y Falstaff (Luces de Gálibo, 2015). The ceremony was held in the 12th Spanish Cinema Tribune organized by the Research Centre of Film-History of the University of Barcelona. Since its first edition, the Spanish Cinema Tribune has invited lots of distinguished filmmakers such as José Luis Guerín, David Trueba, José Luis Borau, Assumpta Serna or Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.

Esteve Riambau.
Esteve Riambau.
Culture
20/05/2016

The director of Filmoteca de Catalunya (Film archive of Catalonia), Esteve Riambau, has been awarded the Film-History Award for the best research for Fronthis book Las cosas que hemos visto. Welles y Falstaff (Luces de Gálibo, 2015). The ceremony was held in the 12th Spanish Cinema Tribune organized by the Research Centre of Film-History of the University of Barcelona. Since its first edition, the Spanish Cinema Tribune has invited lots of distinguished filmmakers such as José Luis Guerín, David Trueba, José Luis Borau, Assumpta Serna or Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.

Esteve Riambau holds a degree in Medicine (1978) and a doctorate in Communication Sciences (1955). He is tenured lecturer in the Department of Audio-visual Communication and Advertising at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has taught courses and given conferences at Standford University, San Francisco State University, UCLA, Sorbonne-Paris III and La Sapienza (Rome) and has been cinema critic in daily press, especially in the newspaper Avui, and specialized publications such as Fotogramas and Dirigido por.

He is the author of monographs, studies and essays on Stanley Kubrick, Marco Ferreri, Costa-Gavras, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Guédiguian, Francis Ford Coppola, Charles Chaplin and Jaime Camino, and on French, Catalan and Spanish cinema. Among his forty published books, the most distinguished ones are Orson Welles, el espectáculo sin límites (1985), Orson Welles, una España inmortal (1993), El paisatge abans de la batalla. El cinema a Catalunya 1896-1939 (1994), Guionistas en el cine español (1998, Muñoz Suay Award by the Spanish Cinema Academy), El cine francés 1958-1998. De la Nouvelle Vague al final de la escapada (1998), La Escuela de Barcelona. El cine de la “gauche divine” (1999), Entrevistas con guionistas del cine español contemporáneo (1999), Ricardo Muñoz Suey. Una vida en sombras (2007, Comillas award and Spanish Cinema Academy award), Productores en el cine español (2008, AEHC award) or Hollywood en la era digital (2011).

He has also been the co-author of Historia del cine español (1995), and coordinator of the Diccionario del cine español (1998) and Historia general del cine (1997, three volumes). He has been the screenwriter of television documentaries LʼEscola de Barcelona. La passió possible (1999) and Orson Welles en el país de Don Quijote, by Carlos Rodríguez (2000). Together with Elisabeth Cabeza he has been screenwriter and director of the documentary full-length films La doble vida del faquir (2005) and Màscares (2009). The latter follows the play Su seguro servidor, Orson Welles (2008), which he directed and was nominated to Max awards for his adaptation.

The Film-Historia Centre for Cinematic Research of the University of Barcelona uses the film as a tool to focus on humanity and social sciences, understanding it as a society witness, a reflection of mentalities and portrait of the contemporary world evolution. The Centreʼs work, directed by the teacher Josep María Caparrós Lera, is to create, theoretically and practically, tools for the education and industry, both in cinema and other audio-visual media formats.