Rodrigo Plá
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).
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![]() Rodrigo Plá in 2008.  | |
| Born | Rodrigo Plá 9 June 1968  | 
| 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
    
- Evene - Rodrigo Plá
 - "La demora, al Oscar por Uruguay". 180.com.uy. 180. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
 - "Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo on Collaboration and ‘A Monster’" Retrieved 31 August 2016
 
