Puy Oria Rubio ( Torres del Rio,

Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...

, 1962) is a Spanish film producer. Some of her most recognised films are '' Obaba,'' '' Don't Be Afraid'' and '' Secrets of the Heart''.

Career

Oria started her film career with Elías Querejeta in ''

Letters from Alou ''Letters from Alou'' () is 1990 Spanish film directed and written by Montxo Armendáriz. Synopsis Alou, a Senegalese man that has entered Spain illegally, can only find occasional jobs due to his situation. Thanks to the letters he sends reg ...

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Montxo Armendáriz Montxo Armendariz (born as Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain)Torres, ''Diccionario Espasa Cine Español'' p. 83 is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''Las cartas de Alou'' won at the San ...

,1990). Then, she was involved in production work on movies such as ''

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,1992), '' Jamón, Jamón'' (

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, 1992), ''

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,1993), '' Días Contados'' (

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, 1994), '' The Turkish Passion'' (

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, 1994), ''

Stories from the Kronen ''Stories from the Kronen'' () is a 1995 drama film directed by Montxo Armendáriz based on the novel of the same name by José Ángel Mañas, which stars Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. ...

'' (Montxo Armendáriz, 1994), ''La ley de la frontera'' (

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, 1995), and ''

Deep Crimson ''Deep Crimson'' () is a 1996 Mexican crime film directed by Arturo Ripstein, written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego and starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho. Like '' The Honeymoon Killers'' before it, the film is a dramatization of the ...

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, 1996). In 1999, she set up, together with Montxo Armendáriz, the audiovisual production company Oria Films, a company with which she has produced, among others, the feature films '' Broken Silence'' (Montxo Armendáriz, 2001), ''La Guerrilla de la Memoria'' (Javier Corcuera,1992), ''Obaba'' (Montxo Armendáriz, 2005)'', Don't Be Afraid'' (Montxo Armendáriz, 2011). She has taught on the subject of audio-visual production courses, lectures and workshops, has also collaborated with several film festivals as a jury member and she has held positions in associations, as Asociación Madrileña del Audiovisual (AMA), where she was president since its constitution in 2007, until 2018. She is a member of

Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain () is a professional organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of Cinema of Spain, Spanish cinema. Founded in 1986, it is responsible for the annual Goya Awards, Spain's princ ...

. Since 2018, president of the PIAF (Federation of Independent Audio-visual Production Companies). Since 2017, Oria presides over the audiovisual management consultant ConsultOria Films, a company that she started up with several colleagues who make up a multidisciplinary group for the comprehensive online assessment of audiovisual projects and that it was born with the vocation of being a meeting place for the sector.

Awards

2006 – Nominated for the

20th Goya Awards The 20th Goya Awards took place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos in Madrid, Spain on 29 January 2006. Winners and nominees Major award nominees Other award nominees Honorary Goya * Pedro Masó Pedro Masó Paulet (born 26 Januar ...

in the category of Best Production Direction for the feature film Obaba. 2015 – Pau i Justicia Award at the 7th edition of the International Film and Human Rights Festival-Humans Fest. 2017 – Tribute at the Outdoor Film Festival of Bueño (Asturias). 2019 – Simone de Beauvoir Award at the XXIV Zinemakumeak gara! (XXIV Showcase of films directed by women). She is also a member of the board of directors of the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País.

References

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