Jacobo Penzo

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Jacobo Penzo (born 1948 in Carora; died 2020 in Caracas), was a Venezuelan filmmaker, best known for his drama piece The House of Water, shown in the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. The film also represented Venezuela in the Best Foreign Language Film competition at the 57th Academy Awards. He was awarded the Venezuelan National Cinema Award (Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela) in 2002 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2007. Penzo was also a painter and a writer.

22-09-1948

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Virgo

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Total Films

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Carora, Venezuela

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22-09-1948

Birthday

Virgo

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Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Carora, Venezuela

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Sons of the Earth

"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.

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2022

Cabimas, Donde Todo Comenzó

A journalist will seek to decipher what happened in Cabimas in 1992, when a well burst, flooding a village for nine days. The different versions of the population and the cult of a saint will make you enter a labyrinth with unexpected situations.

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2012