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Douglas Pedro Sánchez (born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 30, 1952), known as Douglas Sánchez is a Puerto Rican film director and screenwriter. In 1980, Douglas wrote, produced and directed a feature-length film titled ''Cualquier Cosa (Anything)'', which won a ''Special Achievement Award'' from the ''Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences''. In recent years, Douglas has written three feature-film scripts: ''Anacobero'' (Daniel Santos’ Last tour), based on the chronicle-novel ''Vengo a decirle adiós a los muchachos'' by Puerto Rican author ''Josean Ramos'', ''La Perla del Caribe'' (The Pearl of the Caribbean) based on an original idea, and ''Sol de Medianoche'' (Midnight Sun), based on the detective-novel of the same title by also Puerto Rican author ''Edgardo Rodríguez-Juliá'', which last script is currently in pre-production. == Education == In 1974, Sánchez graduated with Honors in ''Comparative Literature'' from Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, where he studied with Robert Scholes, Nicanor Parra, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Arnold Weinstein, and Michael Silverman. The last two individuals supervised his Honors Thesis where Douglas analyzed and compared the Jorge Luis Borges short story, The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, and the film by Bernardo Bertolucci based on the same, ''The Spider’s Stratagem'', and explored the themes of the politics of spectacle and the spectacle of politics. Douglas also completed film-making courses at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and at New York University (NYU), where he studied with Martin Scorsese’s mentor ''Haig P. Manoogian'' and where he produced one of his earliest films, ''Superman on the West Side'' (1973). At that time, Sánchez found and acquired, at a Spanish bookstore in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, ''Jorge Ayala Blanco''’s first book, ''The Adventure of the Mexican Cinema'' and various volumes of ''Emilio García Riera''’s ''Mexican Film Encyclopedia''. These readings re-awakened his interest in ''Mexican film'' ─ an integral part of Douglas’ childhood in San Juan ─ and upon graduating from Brown University, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study the history and aesthetics of this important cinema. Douglas spent the next year doing research and screening films at the now-defunct ''Mexican Cinemateque'', a venture which culminated with meeting his film idol Jean-Luc Godard. In 1975, Godard was invited to Mexico to present a film project to the ''Mexican Cinematography Department''. Douglas attended the press conference for the Swiss director at the Mexico City airport where Godard vainly attempted to talk about his project (to star María Félix), while the press kept pestering him with questions about his presumed relationship with Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Le Mépris. This incident, exaggerated to absurdity, became the jump-start and first scene of Douglas’ later films ''Fotonovela'' (1977) and ''Cualquier Cosa'' (Anything)(1979).〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266431/〕 Douglas further pursued graduate studies in ''Hispanic-American Literature'' at the ''National Autonomous University of Mexico'' (UNAM for its initials in Spanish)─ where he studied with Puerto Rican writer José Luis González, Spanish theorist Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, and Mexican surrealism scholar ''Margo Glanz'' ─ before entering the ''Center for Cinematographic Studies'' (CUEC, for its initials in Spanish), also part of the UNAM. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas Sanchez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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