Juan Pablo Rebella

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Juan Pablo Rebella (born 1974, in Montevideo – July 5, 2006) was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Pablo Stoll first began.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating in 1999 he and Stoll started work on their first feature film, 25 Watts (2001), it went on to win several international awards: Best Feature Film Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Best 1st Feature Film Award at the Havana Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Award and Best Male Actor Award at the Independent Film Festival Buenos Aires.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004 Rebella and Stoll released their second feature film Whisky, at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and opened to critical acclaim, winning the Regard Original Award.^[1]

Whisky also won the Sundance Film Festival's NHK International Filmmakers Award for Latin-America.^{[citation needed]}

Rebella also acted in the short film 8 horas, released in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Rebella shot himself in 2006 at the age of 32. He is buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo.^[2]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Whisky". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
↑ "Tomb of Juan Pablo Rebella".

External links

Juan Pablo Rebella at the Internet Movie Database
Guardian obituary.
(Spanish) Another obituary

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 38035376 LCCN: nr2003010222 ISNI: 0000 0001 1025 1231 GND: 130890847 BNF: cb15007779r

Persondata
Name	Rebella, Juan Pablo
Alternative names
Short description	Uruguayan film director
Date of birth	1974
Place of birth
Date of death	July 5, 2006
Place of death

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