Ventura Pons

Ventura Pons Sala (Catalan pronunciation: [bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns]; 25 July 1945 – 8 January 2024) was a Spanish film director.

His films are continuously programmed in the most prestigious international festivals, almost 810 up to now, and distributed in many countries around the world.

Pons was vice-president of the Spanish Film Academy and the subject of more than 34 international homages and retrospectives: London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), New York's Lincoln Center and in the world's foremost cinematheques, such as those in Los Angeles, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among many others.

Pons also received international "Lifetime Achievement Awards" at film festivals in Chicago, Galway, Piešťany, Lima, Turin, and Montpellier.

Vervuert has published a book about this conference: Ventura Pons: An Exceptional Gaze from the Catalan Cinema.