MADRID.- Filmmaker and until now president of the Academy of Arts and Cinema Sciences, 羘geles Gonz醠ez-Sinde, has been named Minister of Culture, substituting C閟ar Antonio Molina, by the president of the government, Jos� Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

羘geles Gonz醠ez-Sinde has won two Goya Prizes, one for the script for the film by Ricardo Franco "La buena estrella" (1997) and, the other, for her film "La suerte dormida" (2003), in which she debuted as director.

She was born in 1965 in Madrid and is the daughter of screenwriter and producer Jos� Mar韆 Gonz醠ez-Sinde, the first president of the Spanish Academy of Cinema (1985-1988) and a promoter of the Goya Prize. She majored in Philosophy and, before dedicating her professional career to screenwriting, she worked as a translator, concert promoter for a record company and collaborated at "Cosmopolitan".

In 1991 she studied a master磗 degree in screenwriting under her teacher and film director Jos� Luis Borau, at the Universidad Aut髇oma de Madrid. She started her professional career writing for television and then she polished her writing skills in the United States.

Back in Spain, she introduced herself into cinema as the author of the script of Ricardo Franco磗 "La buena estrella" (1997), which obtained a Goya, and then she continued with the dialogues for films such as "L醙rimas negras" (1998), by the same director, "Segunda piel" (2000) by Gerardo Vera; "Hero韓a" (2004) by Gerardo Herrero and "La vida que te espera" (2004), by Manuel Guti閞rez Arag髇.

Angeles Gonz醠ez-Sinde, who as a screenwriter has just presented "Mentiras y gordas", by Menkes y Albacete, debuted as director with the film "La suerte dormida" (2003), which won a Goya for new director and the Premio del C韗culo de Escritores Cinematogr醘icos for best supporting actor for Pepe Soriano.

After this she made a film for television stations Canal Sur and TV-3 縔 a m� qui閚 me cuida? (2007) and her second film as director, "Una palabra tuya" (2008), adapted from the book with the same name by Malena Alterio and Esperanza Pedre駉. She was one of 31 directors who shot the documentary "Madrid 11 M-Todos 韇amos en ese tren" (2005), formed by short reels of the drama that the victims lived through in the terrorist attacks in Madrid.