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Eva Vives
Born9 January 1976 (1976-01-09) (age 48)
Madrid, Spain
Alma materNew York University
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2000–present
SpousePeter Sollett
Children1

Eva Vives (born 9 January 1976)[1] is a Spanish screenwriter, director and producer. She directed All About Nina, her first feature, in 2017.

Early life and education

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Vives was born in Madrid and raised in Barcelona,[2] where she lived until she was 18, at which point she moved to New York City in 1994[3] to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[4]

Career

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Back in 2000, Eva Vives won the Best Short Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival for the film she cast directed, edited, and produced Five Feet High and Rising.[5][6]

Vives co-wrote the 2002 film Raising Victor Vargas, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay[7] and for a Humanitas Prize. Sometime around 2002, Vives then directed the short film Me, Myself & I. Soon after sometime around 2008 she directed, Co-wrote, and produced a short film She Pedals Fast (For a Girl).[8][9]

She wrote and directed the short film Join the Club, starring Ari Graynor (which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival). She's the first woman writer and director to have attended the Sundance Film Festival with a film and participate in the Sundance Screenwriters' lab as well as the Directors' lab and Skywalker Sound and Music, all in the same year.

Vives has also been collaborating/ working on several other projects over the years including Chrome & Paint (which had been renamed to Laugh Now, Cry Later), a film she co-wrote with Ice Cube. This was being produced through Disney where Vives was then accepted into the Disney Writing Fellowship Program, where she was one of the four Disney writers in the Fellowship Program from 2010 to 2012.[10][11]

She directed All About Nina, her first feature, in 2017—starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead[citation needed] and Common.[12]

She has two other scripts, a feminist revenge film and an "All About Eve theater world story" that Vives describes as more "actor-y", as she states in one of her most recent interviews surrounding All About Nina.[13]

In 2018, Vives received the Best LatinX Director Award from NALIP.[14] In 2019 it was also announced that she is one of the recipients of the Sundance Momentum Fellowship.[15]

Social Life

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In New York at the beginning of Vives's career was where she was able to make connections through her relationship with a comedian—this opened a door for her to create a network with several other comedians at the time. She took advantage of this by incorporating her knowledge and experiences with these comedians into All About Nina'.[1]

In Vives's most recent years she finds her circle to reside in Los Angeles since her part in the writing of Victor Vargas—she still works and collaborates with the cast, which all base themselves in LA.[16]

Personal life

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Eva Vives is married to Peter Sollett. The two have a son born in 2013,[17][18][19] they currently live together in Los Angeles.[20]

Some of the themes observed in All About Nina were inspired by the abuse that Vives suffered at the hands of her father, for eight years, when she was a child. About this fact Vives declared: "The liberation happened already; that's why I was able to write about it, because I didn't have to create that much. She's similar to how I was in my twenties". "It was more empowering to write in the sense that I don't really think about my father anymore. As Nina also says in the movie, he committed suicide years ago, so he was already not part of my life. For me, maybe it will be liberating soon enough…. We'll see what happens when it comes out. It was empowering to at least have some say on how I told the story, because for so long he defined me, what he did to me or what he was how I had to live."[21]

Vives once dated a comedian, which she used as the basis of her characters in All About Nina.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
2000 Five Feet High and Rising No No Yes Short-film, Casting-director, Editor
2002 Raising Victor Vargas No Yes No Co-writer
2007 Me, Myself, & I Yes No No Short-film
2008 She Pedals Fast (For a Girl) Yes Yes Yes Short-film, Co-writer
2017 Join the Club Yes Yes Yes Short-film
2018 All About Nina Yes Yes Yes Feature film

Television

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Year Title Note(s)
2019 The Affair directed episode: "505"
2020 Party of Five directed 2 episodes
2021 Good Girls directed episode #45: "Put It all on Two"

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result Reference
2003 & 2004 Independent Spirit Award Best First Screenplay Raising Victor Vargas Nominated [22]
Humanitas Prize Sundance Feature Film Nominated
2018 Tribeca Film Festival Best Narrative Feature All About Nina Nominated [23]

References

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  1. ^ "Eva Vives – IMDB". Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  2. ^ Nolfi, Joey. "Mary Elizabeth Winstead's All About Nina director on turning trauma into art: 'For so long, he defined me'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  3. ^ "IONCINEPHILE OF THE MONTH IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives (All About Nina)". ioncinema. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  4. ^ Macaulay, Scott. "Sundance Announces Eight First-Time Directors for its June Directors Lab | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  5. ^ Macaulay, Scott. "Sundance Announces Eight First-Time Directors for its June Directors Lab | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  6. ^ Five Feet High and Rising, retrieved 13 November 2018
  7. ^ "'Raising Victor Vargas' Scribe on the Joys of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Her New Short Film". Remezcla. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Filmmaker Interview: EVA VIVES, director of ALL ABOUT NINA – SAGindie". SAGindie. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Eva Vives". IMDb. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  10. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (9 April 2011). "Disney In Talks For Ice Cube's 'Chrome And Paint' Feature". Deadline. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  11. ^ Macaulay, Scott. "Sundance Announces Eight First-Time Directors for its June Directors Lab | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  12. ^ N'Duka, Amanda (17 October 2017). "Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Common To Star In 'All About Nina' From Eva Vives". Deadline. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  13. ^ "Filmmaker Interview: EVA VIVES, director of ALL ABOUT NINA – SAGindie". SAGindie. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  14. ^ "NALIP Announces the Nominees for the Latino Media Fest Awards! - NALIP".
  15. ^ "Sundance Institute announces Momentum Fellowship, partners with Warner Bros. in expansion of inclusive support of underrepresented filmmakers – Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. 20 November 2018.
  16. ^ IONCINEMA (8 May 2018), Interview: Eva Vives – All About Nina, retrieved 15 November 2018
  17. ^ "Mary Elizabeth Winstead's 'All About Nina' director on turning trauma into art: 'For so long, he defined me'". EW.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  18. ^ "IONCINEPHILE OF THE MONTH IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives (All About Nina)". ioncinema. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  19. ^ "All About Nina: Director Eva Vives on Surviving Trauma, #MeToo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead". The Shelf. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  20. ^ McCormack, Colin. "Filmmaker Interview: EVA VIVES, writer/director/producer of ALL ABOUT NINA". SAGIndie. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  21. ^ Nolfi, Joey. "Mary Elizabeth Winstead's All About Nina director on turning trauma into art: 'For so long, he defined me'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  22. ^ "'Raising Victor Vargas' Scribe on the Joys of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Her New Short Film". Remezcla. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  23. ^ "Eva Vives". IMDb. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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