Inés Bortagaray Sabarrós (born 22 May 1975) is a Uruguayan writer and screenwriter with a degree in communication studies.
She is the author of Ahora tendré que matarte (2001) and Prontos, listos, ya (2006 and republished in 2010), and has had stories included in anthologies such as Palabras errantes and Pequeñas Resistencias 3, antología del nuevo cuento sudamericano.[1] She has written various screenplays, one of which won an award at the
Sundance Film Festival.
Life
With her three siblings, she frequented the Ariel, Metropol, and Sarandí movie theaters in
Salto and had her first encounters with the world of film, which she later deepened in
Montevideo with her fellow communications students and visits to
Cinemateca Uruguaya.[2]
She worked as a reporter for Posdata and carried out various projects with the design studio Monocromo, including the
Banco de Seguros del Estado almanacs (2009-2015).
She runs a screenplay workshop for the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes audiovisual media program in
Playa Hermosa,
Maldonado Department.
Work
Books
Ahora tendré que matarte (2001, Cauce Editorial, Flexes Terpines collection, managed by writer
Mario Levrero)
Luna con dormilones (screenplay, Pablo Uribe film that participated in the 2012-2013 Montevideo Biennial and won the "El Azahar" grand prize at the tenth Salto Art Biennial)
El tiempo pasa (2013, screenplay)
Una novia errante (2006, feature film screenplay with
Ana Katz)
El fin del mundo (television series, 13 episodes, with Adrián Biniez, original idea with
Juan Pablo Rebella and
Pablo Stoll)
Eight short testimonials for
TV Ciudad in Montevideo about
menarche, first sexual relations, first childbirth, and menopause (2001, direction, research, and production)
Tokyo Boogie (participated in writing the screenplay, Pablo Casacuberta and Yuki Goto)
Awards
The screenplay for Tokyo Boogie was a finalist for Latin America at the 2001
Sundance Film Festival and in 2002 it received the FONA (Fondo para el Fomento y Desarrollo de la Producción Audiovisual en Uruguay)