José Ignacio Cabrujas Lofiego (July 17, 1937 – October 21, 1995 in Porlamar, Margarita Island) was a Venezuelan playwright, theater director, chronicler, soap opera writer, drama librettist, screenplay writer, radio moderator, humanist and political campaigns designer. He is considered one of the founders and innovators of the modern telenovela genre in Latin America, and is called the "Maestro de las Telenovelas."
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.
Release Date:2017-01-13
Character:Archive footage
La Patrona is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Mexican Argos Comunicación. The telenovela is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Dueña, written by José Ignacio Cabrujas. The name reflects a local term or slang in Mexico to address a person recognized as the main boss. However, the title is also a reflection of both the protagonist and the antagonist struggle to conquer power, authority and respect in a labor field traditionally deemed to be a man's job.
Release Date:2013-01-08
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:299
The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez, ascends to power, betraying their ideals to become an accomplice of repression against whom he fought.
Release Date:2011-06-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Emperatriz is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco for Azteca. It stars Gabriela Spanic as the title character, while Bernie Paz as the male lead. Other casts include Sergio de Bustamante, Julieta Egurrola, Adriana Louvier, Marimar Vega, Miriam Higareda, Alberto Guerra, Rafael Sanchez Navarro and Carmen Delgado. Omar Fierro made special appearance in the first five episodes, and later returns in the final part of the series.[1] The filming process took place between 17 March 2011 - 30 September 2011. The series premiered on 5 April 2011, 19 days after filming the first scene, at 8:30pm, occupying Prófugas del Destino's slot, and ended on 8 November 2011. Emperatriz is also known as most selling telenovela of 2011.
Release Date:2011-04-05
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:52
Toda una dama is a successful Venezuelan telenovela produced and broadcast on RCTV International in 2007. The telenovela is a remake of Señora, an original story written by renowned telenovela author José Ignacio Cabrujas. This new verison was adapred by Iris Dubs and starred Christina Dieckmann and Ricardo Álamo as the main protagonists with Nohely Arteaga starred as the main antagonist.
Release Date:2007-11-07
Department:Writing
Job:Idea
Episode Count:169
Vote Count:22
Un nuevo amor was a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco and broadcast by TV Azteca in 2003. It starred antagonistically by Karen Sentíes, as a leading couple had Cecilia Ponce, Sergio Basañez and Vanessa Acosta (it should be noted that Cecilia Ponce left the telenovela halfway through history and was replaced by Vanessa Acosta).
Release Date:2003-03-24
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Release Date:2003-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Release Date:2002-09-30
Department:Writing
Job:Original Series Creator
Episode Count:162
Vote Count:1
The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.
Release Date:1998-09-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
Cambio de Piel is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas and Perla Farias and directed by Tony Rodrígues. This telenovela lasted 110 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International. It is a remake of RCTV's 1986 telenovela, La Dama de Rosa.
Release Date:1997-08-10
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
President Romulo Betancourt's government has just began, an attack is brewing on his life. Braulio an unemployed actor, comes to work in professional wrestling, and falls deeply for Rosario, lover of Buffalo, director of the wrestling group, Ronco, who once is saved by Braulio in a clash with police, offers this winning good money for doing an "important work".
Release Date:1989-10-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Señora is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and broadcast on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas, Ibsen Martínez, Cristina Policastro, and Eliseo Morales and directed by Luis Alberto Lamata and Aura Guevara. The series lasted 229 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.
Release Date:1988-11-10
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Journalist exposé about how power and money ultimately corrupt the innocent.
Release Date:1987-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
La Dama de Rosa is a successful Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. Jeannette Rodríguez and Carlos Mata starred as the main protagonists. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas and directed by Luis Manzo and Tito Rojas. This telenovela lasted 144 episodes and it achieved a significant amount of success inside and outside Venezuela. It was distributed internationally by RCTV International. La Dama de Rosa was remade by RCTV in 1997 under the name "Cambio de Piel".
Release Date:1986-10-06
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:2
Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.
Release Date:1986-01-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and secrets are revealed.
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Vote Count:1
Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.
Release Date:1985-06-19
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:7
A police drama that chronicles the efforts of a police officer to uncover an unexplained murder case that blends the lives of two women and a theater actor, the victim of an "artistic" shot, part of a play.
Release Date:1984-06-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Halfway between fiction and documentary, Initiation of a Shaman tells the story of Rarowe, a young Yanomami who is about to be initiated and must make contact with spirits brought by other shamans. The young man feels the effects of the initiation and always waits until the end to see if he can withstand it. The initiation itself is a rare event and occurs only when the old medicine man is about to die. The ancient rites includes the struggle of the youth with evil spirits which attempt to prevent the old witch doctor from imparting his wisdom to the young man. Hallucinogetic plants are used by the tribe to increase perception. The eerie images depicted are similar to those evoked in the books of Castaneda.
Release Date:1980-04-12
Character:Narrador
Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended. When they resume, Ingrid throws herself into space from the top floor of the campus
Release Date:1979-07-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
Esther and Gustavo are celebrating seven years of happy marriage. Two beautiful children and a comfortable home in a residential area backs the stability of the still young couple, a conventional model of marriage where nothing seems to disturb their harmonious coexistence.
Release Date:1979-06-13
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.
Release Date:1978-10-11
Department:Writing
Job:Co-Writer
Vote Count:1
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
Release Date:1977-01-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:12
Venezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.
Release Date:1975-08-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences.
Release Date:1975-07-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:
Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.
Release Date:1974-11-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:
Vote Count:4
Documentary on Venezuela's dictator Juan Vicente Gómez.
Release Date:1974-08-09
Character:Narrator
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.
Release Date:1974-07-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:
Vote Count:5
Venezuelan feature film by Julio César Mármol.
Release Date:1970-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
This anthology film consists of three parts: "Story One: The story of the brave man", "Story Two: Angels Rhythm" and "Story Three: The false office of supernumerary". The first story tells of a man desperate to get money to cure the illness of his daughter. The second story tells the adventures of a gang of youths; and finally, the third story tells of corruption in Congress.
Release Date:1963-06-19
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
Release Date:1959-08-31
Character:Narrator (Spanish Version) (voice)
Vote Count:31