Inés Bortagaray
Inés Bortagaray Sabarrós is a Uruguayan writer and screenwriter.
She is the author of Ahora tendré que matarte and Prontos, listos, ya, and has had stories included in anthologies such as Palabras errantes and Pequeñas Resistencias 3, antología del nuevo cuento sudamericano. She has written various screenplays, one of which won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Life
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.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.
She runs a screenplay workshop for the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes audiovisual media program in Playa Hermosa, Maldonado Department.
Work
Books
Ahora tendré que matarte- ''Prontos, listos, ya''
Films
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine as ElsaMi amiga del parque Mujer conejo La vida útil Luna con dormilones El tiempo pasa Una novia errante Otra historia del mundo El fin del mundo- Eight short testimonials for TV Ciudad in Montevideo about menarche, first sexual relations, first childbirth, and menopause
- ''Tokyo Boogie''
Awards
- The screenplay for Tokyo Boogie was a finalist for Latin America at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and in 2002 it received the FONA
- The film Una novia errante received the Cine en Construcción de la Industria award at the 54th San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2006.
- Received the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival for her work on the film Mi amiga del parque.