Acting in films/Actuación en películas
Ambar Theater/Teatro Ambar
Theater in Moscow/Teatro en Moscú
Biografía español
Ambar Theater/Teatro Ambar
Theater in Moscow/Teatro en Moscú
Biografía español
Ishtar Yasin is a Costa Rican, Iraqi, Chilean filmmaker. Since 1998, produces, writes and directs creative documentaries, short and feature films.
She was born in Moscow in 1968 and after the military coup in Chile, Ishtar and her family were exiled in Costa Rica.
She studies in the Costa Rican art school Conservatorio Castella ((1979-1984).
Ishtar has a Master in Arts in the State Cinema Institute of Moscow VGIK (1985-1990). In 1986 she was awarded with the Pushkin Prize in Moscow. In 1990 she had the leading role in the feature film “Full Moon” in Kazakhstan.
In 1992 she founded Ambar Theater, where she worked as a playwright, director and actress. She was awarded with the National Award of Theater in Costa Rica for the production “Agonize with Elegance”.
In 1998 she founded Astarté Films where she works as script-writer, producer and director.
In 2004 she writes and directs the interdisciplinary play “Los que pintan en cielo” in the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
In 2008 her first feature film “El Camino” was premiered in FORUM, Oficial Competition in the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2010 she travelled with an “Itinerant cinema” to Haiti and she makes the crative documentary film “Les invisibles”.
In 2011 she starts to develop her second feature film "Two Fridas".
Ishtar has written poems and published stories. She has taught filmmaking, scriptwriting, direction of actors and acting in several universities in Latin America.
FILMOGRAPHY:
1999 “Florencia of the Deep Rivers and the Big Sharks” Short-film/ fiction
2004 “I Remember You as You Were” Short-film/ documentary
2005 “The Happy Table” Medium-Length film/ creative documentary
2008 “The Path” Feature-film/ Fiction
2010 “The Invisibles” Medium- length film/ creative documentary
2012 "Exquisite corpse" Short film/ Docu-fiction
2014 “Apocalipsis of Our Time” Médium/ creative documentary
2018 "Dos Fridas" Feature-film/ Fiction
AWARDS:
1986 First award in the National Acting Contest, “Pushkin”, Moscow
1994 National Theater Award, for the production “Agonice con elegancia” (Dying with elegance), Costa Rica
1997 National Dramatic Art Award by the National Theater Company of Costa Rica for the production “Tirimancias”
1998 Award to the best cinematographic script “Florencia de los ríos hondos y los tiburones grandes” by the Center of Cinema Production in Costa Rica and the Women Institute
“EL CAMINO” (“The Path”) AWARDS:
2008 Special Jury Award
Fribourg Film Festival, Switzerland
2008 Ecumenic Jury Award .
Fribourg Film Festival, Switzerland
2008 FIPRESCI Award
International Federation of Film Critics
Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico
2008 Special Jury Mention Best Iberoamerican Film
Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico
2008 Rail D'Oc Award
Rencontres Cinéma d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse, France
2008 Best Latin American Film
Award Santiago International Film Festival SANFIC, Chile
2008 Roberto "Tato" Miller S.I.C.A. AWARD
Best Latin-American Film
Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina
2008 Jury Special Award
Central American Film Festival ICARO, Guatemala
2008 Best Director Award
Central American Film Festival ICARO, Guatemala
2008 Best Actress Award Central American Film Festival ICARO, Guatemala
2008 Best Actress Award
Punta del Este International Film Festival, Uruguay
2008 Best Iberoamerican Film Award
Casa America of Catalonia
International Festival of Poor Cinema "Humberto Solas"
2008 Best Latin American Film Award
International Festival of Poor Cinema "Humberto Solas"
2007 Signis Award Guadalajara
International Film Festival, Mexico (Film in progress)
2007 Ruben Gamez Special Mention
Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico (Film in progress)
