Yolanda García Serrano facts for kids

Yolanda García Serrano is a talented Spanish director and writer. She was born in 1958. She is well-known for her work in films, TV shows, and plays. In 1994, she won a special award called the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for the movie All Men Are the Same.

About Yolanda García Serrano

Yolanda García Serrano first studied Public Relations. For a few years, she worked as a secretary. At the same time, she began to study acting and theater. She quickly joined a theater group. She started writing small plays, first for children, then for adults.

She learned a lot about writing from teachers like Fermín Cabal [es] and José Luis Alonso de Santos. Later, she studied how to write for movies and TV, and how to direct films. She says she learned the most by writing a lot, reading many books, watching many movies, and even throwing away many scripts that didn't work! She also taught others at the Cinematography and Audiovisual School in Madrid.

In 1988, Yolanda started her career as a professional writer for movies and TV. She often worked with a team, including Manuel Gómez Pereira, Juan Luis Iborra, and Joaquín Oristrell. Together, they won the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1994 for the film All Men Are the Same.

Yolanda has written for popular TV series like Farmacia de guardia (1991–1995), Abuela de verano [es] (2005), and Fugitiva (2018). She also wrote for movies such as Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1997), Queens (2005), and Mediterranean Food (2008).

In 1997, Yolanda directed and wrote the movie Amor de hombre with Juan Luis Iborra. She later turned this movie into a book. The film won an award at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

In 2000, she worked with Juan Luis Iborra again to direct and write Km. 0. This movie won an award for best film at the Torino Film Festival. Two years later, she directed her first movie all by herself, a family comedy called Hasta aquí hemos llegado (2002).

Her play Ser o no ser Cervantes was shown in New York in 2010. It won three awards from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). In 2011, she became the first Spanish woman to direct her own play in New York.

In 2013, she won the Lope de Vega Award [es] with Juan Carlos Rubio [es] for their play Shakespeare nunca estuvo aquí. Yolanda has mostly worked on comedies. She believes comedy helps people deal with difficult things. However, in 2016, she wrote her first drama play, ¡Corre!, with Joaquín Oristrell. This play was based on her own life experiences. For ¡Corre!, she won the important National Dramatic Literature Award of Spain in 2018.

Yolanda's daughter, Cora Tiedra, is also an actress. Cora has appeared in some of Yolanda's films and TV series.

Yolanda's Works

Yolanda García Serrano has created many works for film, television, and theater.

Films

• 1991 – Salsa rosa
• 1994 – Todos los hombres sois iguales
• 1997 – Amor de hombre
• 2000 – Km. 0
• 2002 – Hasta aquí hemos llegado

Television Series

• 1991–1995 – Farmacia de Guardia
• 2005 – Abuela de verano
• 2018 – Fugitiva

Books

• 1993 – Línea caliente
• 1997 – Amor de hombre, a book based on her film script
• 2000 – Siempre me enamoro del hombre equivocado
• 2001 – De qué va eso del amor, with Verónica Fernández Rodríguez
• 2004 – Mujer casada busca gente que la lleve al cine
• 2007 – Descalza por la vida, with Verónica Fernández Rodríguez

Theater Plays

• 1986 – La llamada es del todo inadecuada
• 1998 – Qué asco de amor
• 2007 – Dónde pongo la cabeza
• 2013 – Shakespeare nunca estuvo aquí, with Juan Carlos Rubio (Lope de Vega Award winner)
• 2016 – ¡Corre!, with Joaquín Oristrell

See also

In Spanish: Yolanda García Serrano para niños