Jacobo Rispa
Encyclopedia
Career
After attending Emerson CollegeEmerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...
in Boston
Boston
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, he directed the short film Un día perfecto
Un día perfecto
Un día perfecto is a science-fiction short film by Jacobo Rispa. It was awarded with the Goya in 1999, and received various other prizes in Alcine, Viña del Mar, and Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Vila Real....
for which he was awarded the Goya
Goya Awards
The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards....
for Best Short Film in the 13th Goya Awards
13th Goya Awards
The 13th Goya Awards were presented in Madrid, Spain on 23 January 1999.La niña de tus ojos won the award for Best Film.-Major award nominees:-Other award nominees:...
.
Having gained respect and recognition from the industry, in 1999 he started directing the TV drama Hospital Central
Hospital Central
Hospital Central is a Spanish television series that follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid. New episodes are shown by Telecinco network in Spain, and cable/satellite channel Factoría de Ficción reruns them a couple of weeks later...
for Telecinco
Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Mediaset España. Launched in 1990 as Tele 5, it was the fifth of the national terrestrial television channels. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the flower logo seen in other Mediaset channel...
, which is currently the longest-running fiction in Spanish TV.