Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez
Film director, screenwriter and actress (born 1968)
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Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez (Arabic: عشتار ياسين جوتيريز; born 1968) is a Soviet-born Iraqi Chilean-Costa Rican director, screenwriter, producer and actress based in Mexico.[1][2][3] In 2008, Yasin made her directorial debut with the feature film The Path (Spanish: El Camino).[1][2]
Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez | |
|---|---|
عشتار ياسين جوتيريز | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) |
| Education | Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, 1990 |
| Occupations | |
| Mother | Elena Gutiérrez |
| Relatives | Joaquín Gutiérrez (grandfather) |
| Website | ishtaryasin |
Biography
Yasin was born in 1968 in Moscow, Soviet Union (present-day Russia) to Mohsen Sadoon Yasin, an Iraqi theater director, and Elena Gutiérrez, a Chilean-Costa Rican ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the National Dance Company of Costa Rica.[1][3][4][5][6][7] Through her mother, Yasin was the granddaughter of the Costa Rican writer Joaquín Gutiérrez.[6][7]
In 1968, the family settled in Chile but fled to Costa Rica following the 1973 coup d'état.[1][5] From 1979 to 1984, Yasin studied at the Conservatorio de Castella.[1][4] In 1985, aged 17, Yasin returned to Soviet Union and studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.[1][3] Yasin graduated with a Masters in 1990.[3][8]
In Costa Rica, Gutiérrez founded the Ámbar Theatre in 1992 and the Astarté Films production company in 1999.[1][3] In 2004, Gutiérrez had a residency at the Centre d'Écriture Cinématographique in Normandy.[1] Yasin made her directorial debut with the feature film The Path (Spanish: El Camino) in 2008.[2] In 2012, Gutiérrez settled in Mexico.[1]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Type | Director | Writer | Actor | Producer | Editor | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Full Moon (Russian: Полнолуние) | Feature | No | No | Yes | No | No | Directed by Naana Chankova | [9] |
| 2000 | Florence of the deep rivers and the big sharks (Spanish: Florencia de los ríos hondos y los tiburones grandes) | Short | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [10] | |
| 2005 | The happy table (Spanish: La mesa feliz) | Short documentary | Yes | Yes | Dedicated to Antonio Cuevas | [11] | |||
| 2007 | The Path (Spanish: El Camino) | Feature | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | [2] | |
| 2009 | What's going on? | Feature | No | No | Yes | No | No | Directed by Jocelyne Saab | [12] |
| 2010 | The Invisibles (Spanish: Les Invisibles | Documentary | Yes | Yes | [1] | ||||
| 2014 | Apocalypse of our Time (Spanish: Apocalipsis de nuestro tiempo) | Documentary | Yes | No | Yes | No | [13] | ||
| 2018 | Two Fridas (Spanish: Dos Fridas) | Feature | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | [14] | |
| 2022 | My Lost Country | Documentary | Yes | Yes | Self | Yes | Yes | [5][15] |