{{Short description|Venezuelan film director}} '''Jacobo Penzo''' (born 1948 in Carora; died 2020 in Caracas), was a Venezuelan filmmaker,<ref name=imdbpenzo>{{cite web|title=Jacobo Penzo Writer, Director, Assistant Director |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672449/|website=IMDb|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> best known for his drama piece ''The House of Water'', shown in the Directors' Fortnight section<ref>{{cite web|title=La Quinzaine|url=http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/|website=Quinzaine Des Realizateurs|accessdate=April 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name=quinzaine>{{cite web|title=La Casa De Agua|url=http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/la-casa-de-agua-f13405.html|website=Quinzaine Des Realisateurs|accessdate=April 25, 2015|archive-date=August 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810004243/http://quinzaine-realisateurs.com/la-casa-de-agua-f13405.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> of the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. The film also represented Venezuela in the Best Foreign Language Film competition at the 57th Academy Awards.<ref name=imdbvenezuela>{{cite web|title=Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|url=https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000261163/|website=IMDb|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> Penzo is also a painter and a writer.<ref name="cineyarte">{{cite web|title=Jacobo Penzo|url=http://cineyarte.es.tl/Jacobo-Penzo|website=cineyarte.es.tl|accessdate=Oct 28, 2016}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Biography== Jacobo Penzo was born in Carora Lara, Venezuela on September 22, 1948. He moved to Caracas with his family in 1957. After high school he studied journalism at the Central University of Venezuela.<ref name="cineyarte"/> From 1999 to 2002 Penzo was President of the Venezuelan National Cinematheque Foundation (Cinemateca Nacional) <ref>{{cite web|title=National Cinematheque Venezuela|url=http://clippel.com/kategorie/miscellany/national-cinematheque-venezuela.php|website=clippel.com|accessdate=April 22, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150426011526/http://clippel.com/kategorie/miscellany/national-cinematheque-venezuela.php|archive-date=April 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="socorro">{{cite web|last1 = Milagros|first1 = Socorro|title = El cine según Jacobo Penzo|url = http://milagrossocorro.com/2008/08/el-cine-segun-jacobo-penzo/|website = milagrossocorro.com|accessdate = April 18, 2015}}</ref>
==Awards==
*Venezuelan National Cinema Award (Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela) in 2002.<ref name="casadelartista">{{cite web|title=Jacobo Penzo Premio Nacional de Cultura|url=http://www.casadelartista.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=238:hoy-recordamos-a-maria-teresa-carreno&catid=10:noticias-culturales&Itemid=1|website=www.casadelartista.gob.ve|accessdate=April 18, 2015|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305074000/http://www.casadelartista.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=238:hoy-recordamos-a-maria-teresa-carreno&catid=10:noticias-culturales&Itemid=1|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=letralia>{{cite web|title=Jacobo Penzo obtiene el Premio Nacional de Cine de Venezuela|url=http://www.letralia.com/106/0301penzo.htm|website=www.letralia.com|accessdate=April 22, 2015}}</ref> *Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2007 in recognition to Penzo´s ''artistic talents'' <ref name=ambfranceentrega>{{cite web|title=Entrega de las insignias de Caballero del Orden de las Artes y las Letras a los Sres. Jacobo Penzo y Antonio López Ortega|url=http://www.ambafrance-ve.org/Entrega-de-las-insignias-de|website=Ambfrance|accessdate=April 25, 2015|archive-date=October 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028220414/http://www.ambafrance-ve.org/Entrega-de-las-insignias-de|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=chevalier>{{cite web|title=Remise des insignes de Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres à MM. Jacobo Penzo et Antonio López Ortega|url=http://www.ambafrance-ve.org/Remise-des-insignes-de-Chevalier|website=www.ambafrance-ve.org|accessdate=April 24, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061630/http://www.ambafrance-ve.org/Remise-des-insignes-de-Chevalier|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Films==
*The House of Water ("La Casa de Agua"), 1984 *Música Nocturna <ref name=musicanoc>{{cite web|title=Música Nocturna|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2|website=www.imdb.com|accessdate=April 22, 2015}}</ref> ("Night Music"), 1987 *En territorio Extranjero<ref name=territorioex>{{cite web|title=En territorio extranjero|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105564/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|website=www.imdb.com|accessdate=April 22, 2015}}</ref> ("On A Foreign Land") 1993 *Borrador<ref name=ibermediaborrador>{{cite web|title=Coproducción Borrador|url=http://www.programaibermedia.com/proyectos/borrador/|website=Programa Ibermedia}}</ref><ref name=comercioborrador>{{cite web|title=En el filme "Borrador" un cineasta es protagonista|url=http://blogs.elcomercio.es/talentovenezonalo/2006/02/11/h3-class-post-title-en-filme-borrador-cineasta-es/|website=El Comercio|accessdate=April 25, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070425/http://blogs.elcomercio.es/talentovenezonalo/2006/02/11/h3-class-post-title-en-filme-borrador-cineasta-es/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ( "Draft" ) co-production, 2006 *Cabimas donde todo comenzó<ref name=ideasdebabelcabimas>{{cite web|title=Cabimas, donde todo comenzó REGRESO A LAS RAÍCES, por Alfonso Molina|url=https://ideasdebabel.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/cabimas-donde-todo-comenzo-regreso-a-las-raices-por-alfonso-molina/|website=Ideas de Babel|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> ("Cabimas, the burst") 2012
==Documentaries==
Some of Penzo´s documentaries are:
*Falso Retrato de Luis Alberto Crespo<ref name=universalfalso>{{cite web|title="Falso retrato" aborda la obra de Luis Alberto Crespo|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/140617/falso-retrato-aborda-la-obra-de-luis-alberto-crespo|website=El Universal|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> (" Fake Portrait of LAC ") 2014 *El Profeta Olvidado<ref name=IMDbprofeta>{{cite web|title=SEE RANK Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso: el profeta olvidado|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463537/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> ( "The Forgotten Prophet" ), co-production with Carlos Azpúrua<ref name=IMDbazpurua>{{cite web|title=Carlos Azpúrua Director|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044414/|website=IMDb|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> 2003 *Maracaibo Blues<ref name=clermontmaracaibo>{{cite web|title=Maracaibo Blues|url=http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=136&c=3&id_film=100037736&o=|website=clermont-filmfest.com|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 2001 *Algunas Preguntas a la Mujeres<ref name=sisbivpreguntas>{{cite web|last1=Quiroz|first1=Li|title=Algunas preguntas a las mujeres [película] /|url=http://sisbiv.bnv.gob.ve/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=423498|website=SISBIV|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> (Questions to Women) 1984 *El Silencio de la Memoria ("The Silence of the Past") 1986 *La Pastora Resiste<ref name=veredapastora>{{cite web|title=LA PASTORA RESISTE|url=http://vereda.saber.ula.ve/cgi-win/be_alex.exe?Acceso=T500200003878/0&Nombrebd=vereda|website=Vereda - Arte de Venezuela|accessdate=April 25, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150426031615/http://vereda.saber.ula.ve/cgi-win/be_alex.exe?Acceso=T500200003878/0&Nombrebd=vereda|archive-date=April 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> ("The Old Town Battle") 1982 *El Afinque de Marín ("The Barrio Beat")<ref name=docuvenafinque>{{cite web|title=El Afinque de Marín|url=http://www.docuven.org.ve/244/el-afinque-de-marin-por-jacobo-penzo/|website=DOCUVEN|accessdate=April 25, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150426011520/http://www.docuven.org.ve/244/el-afinque-de-marin-por-jacobo-penzo/|archive-date=April 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ucabafinque>{{cite web|title=El afinque de Marín|url=http://saber.ucab.edu.ve/handle/123456789/34940|website=Saber - UCAB|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> 1980 *Tecnología para el hombre<ref name="casadelartista" /> ("Progress for The People") 1986 *El Compadre Antonio<ref name="casadelartista" /> ("Saint Anthony: a Friend of the People") 1982 *Dos Ciudades<ref name="casadelartista" /> ("Two Cities") 1982
==Writings==
*Veinte años por un Cine de Author,<ref name="anac20años">{{cite book|last1=Dorante|first1=Jacobo Penzo|title=20 años por un cine de autor, 1974 - 1994 : apuntes para la historia de la Asociación Nacional de Autores Cinematográficos ANAC|date=2000|publisher=ANAC|location=Caracas|isbn=980-07-6500-X|edition=1.|url=http://bibhumartes.ucla.edu.ve/cgi-win/be_alex.exe?Autor=Penzo+Dorante,+Jacobo&Nombrebd=bcucla&Sesion=1744633769|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> essay, 2000 *Que Habrá sido de Herbert Marcuse,<ref name=poesiamarcuse>{{cite book|last1=Penzo|first1=Jacobo|title=Que habrá sido de Herbert Marcuse|date=2014|publisher=Editorial Eclepsidra|location=Caracas|isbn=978-980-6480-55-1|url=http://www.poesiacastellana.es/presentacion-libros/8400-qu%C3%A9-habr%C3%A1-sido-de-herbert-marcuse,-editado-por-eclepsidra-cineasta-venezolano-jacobo-penzo-presenta-libro-de-cuentos.html|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}</ref> short stories, 2014 *Rumores,<ref name=eclepsidrarumores>{{cite book|last1=Penzo|first1=Jacobo|title=Rumores|date=2014|publisher=Eclepsidra Editorial|location=Caracas|isbn=978-980-6480-58-2|url=http://www.letralia.com/300/0426rumores.htm}}</ref> poems, 2015
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