Rodrigo Plá (born 9 June 1968 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan screenwriter and director. He is best known for his 2007 film La Zona (The Zone).

Rodrigo Plá
Rodrigo Plá in 2008.
Born	Rodrigo Plá (1968-06-09) 9 June 1968 (age 54) Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality	Uruguayan
Years active	1988 – present

Plá studied photography, screenwriting and direction at the Centro de capacitación cinematográfica in Mexico City, where he has lived since he was 9 years old. In 1988 he directed his first short-film.[1]

His 2012 film The Delay was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.[2]

Rodrigo is married to writer Laura Santullo, who has written all the screenplays for all four of his full-length feature films, including his latest, Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas ("A Monster With a Thousand Heads"), which was based on her novel by the same name.[3]

Filmography

• Novia Mía, 1996
• El ojo en la nuca, 2001
• La Zona, 2007
• Desierto adentro, 2008
• Revolución, 2010
• The Delay, 2012
• Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas, 2015

References

External links

• On Rodrigo Plá at La Jornada

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[ru] Пла, Родриго