Cinema of Uruguay
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The Cinema of Uruguay
has a role in the Culture of Uruguay
. The industry has many actors and directors that made the Uruguayan cinema a part of Latin American cinema.
His first short film a success, Oliver established the country's first film studio and continued to make documentaries. One of Argentina
's first cinematographers, French
-born Henri Corbicier, took Uruguayan film in a new direction, however, when he produced The Peace of 1904, a documentary on Uruguay's recent political conflict and its resolution. Corbicier continued to produce newsreels and documentaries for the Uruguayan public for some time and influenced others to do the same.
Supplied most of their commercial film by Argentine production houses, Uruguayan audiences saw no domestic fiction film titles until, in 1919, local non-profit society Bonne Garde financed Pervanche, directed by León Ibáñez. Unsuccessful, the effort was the country's only one of its type until Juan Antonio Borges' Almas de la Costa. Released in 1923, it is considered the first full-length Uruguayan film. Its studio, Charrúa Films, produced one more full-length film (Adventures of a Parisian Girl in Montevideo) before closing in 1927.
Inspiring others, however, this modest start led Carlos Alonso to produce The Little Hero of Arroyo de Oro in 1929; the film, a realist tragedy set in the countryside, was in the vanguard for its frank and graphic depiction of domestic violence and was the first commercially successful Uruguayan film.
The year 1930, despite other difficulties, provided Uruguayan film makers an unexpected opportunity when their national football team
won that year's World Cup
. Justino Zavala Muñiz produced rousing documentaries on the event, as well as the coinciding hundredth anniversary of the Uruguayan Constitution. His success enabled him to establish the Uruguyan Cine-Club, from where he premiered the acclaimed Sky, Water and Sea Lions, among other documentaries and fiction films.
The great depression
, however, soon dampened local film makers' plans and audiences would wait until 1936 to see the next locally-produced film.
and was made despite the repressive atmosphere that prevailed in Uruguay during President Gabriel Terra
's règime. Beset by censorship, Argentine film imports and global instability, local film remained limited to documentaries, newsreels and lighthearted comedies and musicals.
A joint venture between Argentine and Uruguayan investors, however, resulted in Orión Studios. Producing four well-received full-length dramas between 1946 and 1948, the studio reintroduced local audiences to Uruguayan drama film with Argentine Director Julio Saraceni
's version of The Three Musketeers and Belisario García Villar's version of Italian
novelist Luigi Pirandello
's Come tu me vuoi. The renewed activity brought Kurt Land
to Uruguay, where he made The Thief of Dreams.
The post-war era continued to bring audiences well-received comedies such as Adolfo Fabregat's The Detective Goes the Wrong Way (1949) and documentaries like Enrico Gras
' Artigas: Protector of Free Peoples (1950), though dramatic full-length titles continued to struggle; documentaries continued to be the local film industry's standby. Miguel Ángel Melino's ode to the Uruguayan independence saga
, The Arrival of the Thirty-Three Easterners (1952) earned him plaudits and a long-term contract with the National Party
for campaign film productions.
Years without local drama titles went by until 1959, when Hugo Ulive made A Song for Judas, a realist ode to the struggling troubadour. The realist and neorealist
film genre found wider acceptance locally and Ulive and others made a number of cultural documentaries and after 1960, films for the promotion of tourism.
titles aimed at encouraging social concern. Mario Handler's Carlos: Portrait of a Montevideo Panhandler represented a local form of Cinéma Vérité
that drew on Uruguayan film makers' tradition as documentarians. Handler, increasingly the target of harassment, followed this with studies on the day's student uprisings like the unequivocal I Like Students (1968), Líber Arce: Liberation (1969) and an ode to a massive local meatpackers' strike, The Uruguayan Beef Shortage of 1969.
Following Handler's exile to Venezuela in 1972, however, Uruguayan film makers increasingly limited themselves to conventional subjects and, aside from Jorge Fornio and Raúl Quintín's 1973 flop Maribel's Peculiar Family (the first Uruguayan film in produced in color), local full length productions of any type ceased until 1979. That year, the new dictatorship
's public relations office (DINARP) recruited Argentine Director Eva Landeck and Spaghetti western
veteran George Hilton to make Land of Smoke, a feature so disliked by the public it resulted in the Producers' bankruptcy.
The fiasco became a blessing in disguise, however, when in 1980, the DINARP opted to give Director Eduardo Darino nearly free rein over production of Gurí, a gaucho
tale based on Serafín García's homonymous novel. The endearing tale revived the local film industry and drew Hollywood
's attention, as well; the following year, Eli Wallach
accepted the leading role in a version adapted for U.S. television.
Correction: GURI was produced by Zenit Intl. US, Eli Wallach participated since day one, and Darino had plans for 3 films backed by Richard Allen with HBO Interest. DINARP requested that Enrique Guarnero played the father role for Uruguay. Darino completed the film but backed off the other two titles. Robert Miller, Zenit Intl. Production VP.
Similar conditions enabled Juan Carlos Rodríguez Castro to make The Murder of Venancio Flores in 1982. Based on events surrounding the assassinations of President Venancio Flores
and former President Bernardo Berro
in 1868, the film fared meagerly at the local box office; but it earned an honorable mention at the prestigious Huelva Film Festival. The accomplishment, earned during Uruguay's deepest economic crisis since 1930, encouraged Luis Varela to make The Winner Takes It All, an indictment of the wave of financial fraud
Uruguay (and much of Latin America) was subject to around 1980.
Uruguay's economy began to recover despite the weight of foreign debt interest payments; but, continuing difficulties led Beatriz Flores Silva to make The Almost-True Story of Pepita the Gunslinger, a drama based on an 1988 incident involving a middle-class lady in dire straits and her audacious assault on a number of Montevideo banks. Released in 1994, the film did well locally and in Spain
.
Addressing local film makers' economic difficulties, the city of Montevideo
established FONA and the national government, INA, two funds designed to subsidize local projects that might not otherwise ever see the light of day. These funds enabled Alejandro Bazzano to make Underground, a futurist 1997 TV pilot whose series, however, were soon canceled. Pablo Rodríguez's Gardel: Echoes of Silence (on the legendary Tango vocalist
) met a similar fate. The year 1997, despite these, setbacks, ended on a positive note for local film in Alvaro Buela's deceptively simple A Way to Dance and Diego Arsuaga's film-noir, Otario.
Uruguayan Directors pursued increasing varied subject matter from 1998, including Leonardo Ricagni's surreal The Chevrolet and Esteban Schroeder's mystery, The Vineyard. Luis Nieto took an Ibsen
-esque turn with The Memory of Blas Quadra (2000), and Pablo Rodríguez lived down his previous disappointment with Damned Cocaine (2001). Brummell Pommerenck portrayed existential loneliness in Call for the Postman (2001), Luis Nieto returned to deal with a former extremist back from exile in The Southern Star (2002) and Pablo Stoll
and Juan Pablo Rebella
gave an empathetic portrayal of youth in 25 Watts
(2002); their dark comedy, Whisky
(2003) earned the Un Certain Regard
Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
. Marcelo Bertalmío's existential Noise (2005) was well-received and won the Audience Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival.
The rustic Uruguayan countryside became of interest to foreign film makers, as well. Swiss Director Bruno Soldini used the setting for The Brickmasons of Tapes a 1989 period piece filmed in Italian. Local film makers, likewise, took to the same bucolic setting to make two Uruguay/Argentina co-productions, Diego Arsuaga's unyielding The Last Train
(2002) and Guillermo Casanova's sentimental The Trip to the Ocean (2003).
Uruguayan film production continues to make its modest though influential presence felt in the vast array of Latin American film, turning out four to six films a year and contributing to other countries' film industries, as well, with talent such as Director Israel Adrián Caetano
, who has made a number of acclaimed Argentine films since co-directing Pizza, Beer and Smokes in 1997.
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
has a role in the Culture of Uruguay
Culture of Uruguay
Contemporary Uruguayan culture is diverse in its nature since the nation's population is one of multicultural origins. The country has an impressive legacy of artistic and literary traditions, especially for its small size...
. The industry has many actors and directors that made the Uruguayan cinema a part of Latin American cinema.
The early days
Louis Lumière's invention was introduced to Uruguayan audiences for the first time on July 18, 1898, at the Salón Rouge, a popular local cabaret. Local businessman Félix Oliver purchased Uruguay's first film, camera and projector from the Lumiére brothers themselves; with them he made Bicycle Race in the Arroyo Seco Velodrome, only the second film produced in Latin America.His first short film a success, Oliver established the country's first film studio and continued to make documentaries. One of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
's first cinematographers, French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
-born Henri Corbicier, took Uruguayan film in a new direction, however, when he produced The Peace of 1904, a documentary on Uruguay's recent political conflict and its resolution. Corbicier continued to produce newsreels and documentaries for the Uruguayan public for some time and influenced others to do the same.
Supplied most of their commercial film by Argentine production houses, Uruguayan audiences saw no domestic fiction film titles until, in 1919, local non-profit society Bonne Garde financed Pervanche, directed by León Ibáñez. Unsuccessful, the effort was the country's only one of its type until Juan Antonio Borges' Almas de la Costa. Released in 1923, it is considered the first full-length Uruguayan film. Its studio, Charrúa Films, produced one more full-length film (Adventures of a Parisian Girl in Montevideo) before closing in 1927.
Inspiring others, however, this modest start led Carlos Alonso to produce The Little Hero of Arroyo de Oro in 1929; the film, a realist tragedy set in the countryside, was in the vanguard for its frank and graphic depiction of domestic violence and was the first commercially successful Uruguayan film.
The year 1930, despite other difficulties, provided Uruguayan film makers an unexpected opportunity when their national football team
Uruguay national football team
The Uruguayan national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez...
won that year's World Cup
1930 FIFA World Cup
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 July to 30 July 1930...
. Justino Zavala Muñiz produced rousing documentaries on the event, as well as the coinciding hundredth anniversary of the Uruguayan Constitution. His success enabled him to establish the Uruguyan Cine-Club, from where he premiered the acclaimed Sky, Water and Sea Lions, among other documentaries and fiction films.
The great depression
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
, however, soon dampened local film makers' plans and audiences would wait until 1936 to see the next locally-produced film.
The golden age
That year, Ciclolux Studios purchased Uruguay's first equipment for the production of film sound and released Director Juan Etchebehere's Two Destinies. Socially conscious, the film is reminiscent of Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
and was made despite the repressive atmosphere that prevailed in Uruguay during President Gabriel Terra
Gabriel Terra
Dr. Gabriel Terra Leivas was the President of Uruguay from 1931 to 1938.- Background :Born in Montevideo to a wealthy family, he graduated from the University of Uruguay in 1895, and subsequently joined the faculty....
's règime. Beset by censorship, Argentine film imports and global instability, local film remained limited to documentaries, newsreels and lighthearted comedies and musicals.
A joint venture between Argentine and Uruguayan investors, however, resulted in Orión Studios. Producing four well-received full-length dramas between 1946 and 1948, the studio reintroduced local audiences to Uruguayan drama film with Argentine Director Julio Saraceni
Julio Saraceni
Julio Saraceni was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director spanned six decades....
's version of The Three Musketeers and Belisario García Villar's version of Italian
Italy
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novelist Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...
's Come tu me vuoi. The renewed activity brought Kurt Land
Kurt Land
Kurt Landesberger was an Austrian born Argentine film director of the 1950s and 1960s....
to Uruguay, where he made The Thief of Dreams.
The post-war era continued to bring audiences well-received comedies such as Adolfo Fabregat's The Detective Goes the Wrong Way (1949) and documentaries like Enrico Gras
Enrico Gras
Enrico Gras was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1941 and 1961.-External links:...
' Artigas: Protector of Free Peoples (1950), though dramatic full-length titles continued to struggle; documentaries continued to be the local film industry's standby. Miguel Ángel Melino's ode to the Uruguayan independence saga
Thirty-Three Orientals
The Treinta y Tres Orientales was a militant revolutionary group led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja against the Empire of Brazil. Their actions culminated in the foundation of modern Uruguay...
, The Arrival of the Thirty-Three Easterners (1952) earned him plaudits and a long-term contract with the National Party
National Party (Uruguay)
The National Party , also known as the White Party , is a major right-wing conservative political party in Uruguay, currently the major opposition party to the ruling Frente Amplio government....
for campaign film productions.
Years without local drama titles went by until 1959, when Hugo Ulive made A Song for Judas, a realist ode to the struggling troubadour. The realist and neorealist
Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...
film genre found wider acceptance locally and Ulive and others made a number of cultural documentaries and after 1960, films for the promotion of tourism.
Winds of change
The shifting intellectual discourse in much of the western world during the 1960s influenced Uruguayan culture quickly and extensively; among film makers, this made itself evident in the production of muck-rakingMuckraker
The term muckraker is closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination...
titles aimed at encouraging social concern. Mario Handler's Carlos: Portrait of a Montevideo Panhandler represented a local form of Cinéma Vérité
Cinéma Vérité
Cinéma Vérité is the first album by an alternative rock group Dramarama, released in November 1985. Although Dramarama was an American group, specifically from New Jersey, the album was originally released by New Rose Records of France, and in America on Question Mark Records...
that drew on Uruguayan film makers' tradition as documentarians. Handler, increasingly the target of harassment, followed this with studies on the day's student uprisings like the unequivocal I Like Students (1968), Líber Arce: Liberation (1969) and an ode to a massive local meatpackers' strike, The Uruguayan Beef Shortage of 1969.
Following Handler's exile to Venezuela in 1972, however, Uruguayan film makers increasingly limited themselves to conventional subjects and, aside from Jorge Fornio and Raúl Quintín's 1973 flop Maribel's Peculiar Family (the first Uruguayan film in produced in color), local full length productions of any type ceased until 1979. That year, the new dictatorship
Aparicio Méndez
Aparicio Méndez Manfredini , was a Uruguayan political figure. He was a de facto President of Uruguay from 1976–1981. As a non-democratically elected authority of the Civic-military dictatorship .-Background:...
's public relations office (DINARP) recruited Argentine Director Eva Landeck and Spaghetti western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
veteran George Hilton to make Land of Smoke, a feature so disliked by the public it resulted in the Producers' bankruptcy.
The fiasco became a blessing in disguise, however, when in 1980, the DINARP opted to give Director Eduardo Darino nearly free rein over production of Gurí, a gaucho
Gaucho
Gaucho is a term commonly used to describe residents of the South American pampas, chacos, or Patagonian grasslands, found principally in parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Chile, and Southern Brazil...
tale based on Serafín García's homonymous novel. The endearing tale revived the local film industry and drew Hollywood
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
's attention, as well; the following year, Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
accepted the leading role in a version adapted for U.S. television.
Correction: GURI was produced by Zenit Intl. US, Eli Wallach participated since day one, and Darino had plans for 3 films backed by Richard Allen with HBO Interest. DINARP requested that Enrique Guarnero played the father role for Uruguay. Darino completed the film but backed off the other two titles. Robert Miller, Zenit Intl. Production VP.
Similar conditions enabled Juan Carlos Rodríguez Castro to make The Murder of Venancio Flores in 1982. Based on events surrounding the assassinations of President Venancio Flores
Venancio Flores
Venancio Flores Barrios was a Uruguayan political leader and general. Flores was President of Uruguay from 1854 to 1855 and from 1865 to 1868.-Background and early career:...
and former President Bernardo Berro
Bernardo Berro
Bernardo Prudencio Berro was the President of Uruguay from 1860 to 1864.-President of Uruguay :...
in 1868, the film fared meagerly at the local box office; but it earned an honorable mention at the prestigious Huelva Film Festival. The accomplishment, earned during Uruguay's deepest economic crisis since 1930, encouraged Luis Varela to make The Winner Takes It All, an indictment of the wave of financial fraud
Latin American debt crisis
The Latin American debt crisis was a financial crisis that occurred in the early 1980s , often known as the "lost decade", when Latin American countries reached a point where their foreign debt exceeded their earning power and they were not able to repay it.-Origins:In the 1960s and 1970s many...
Uruguay (and much of Latin America) was subject to around 1980.
Challenges and freedom
Beset by a nearly unprecedented socioeconomic crisis, Uruguay's last dictator, Gen. Gregorio Álvarez, called elections for 1984. The advent of democracy under Julio Sanguinetti could do little for the local film industry economically, at first; renewed freedoms, though, encouraged the growth of the Uruguyan video industry (a genre less limited by distribution costs, for instance). Local video producers such as CEMA and Imágenes ushered in the new era with politically controversial titles such as Guillermo Casanova's The Dead, and Carlos Ameglio and Diego Arsuaga's The Last Vermicelli. Other video production houses, like Grupo Hacedor touched on social problems, as in the violent Fast Life (1992) and traditional screen film makers also made their presence felt, like César de Ferrari and his documentary General Elections, which focused on the plight of veteran leftist Wilson Ferreira Aldunate and his being banned from the 1984 polls.Uruguay's economy began to recover despite the weight of foreign debt interest payments; but, continuing difficulties led Beatriz Flores Silva to make The Almost-True Story of Pepita the Gunslinger, a drama based on an 1988 incident involving a middle-class lady in dire straits and her audacious assault on a number of Montevideo banks. Released in 1994, the film did well locally and in Spain
Spain
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.
Addressing local film makers' economic difficulties, the city of Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
established FONA and the national government, INA, two funds designed to subsidize local projects that might not otherwise ever see the light of day. These funds enabled Alejandro Bazzano to make Underground, a futurist 1997 TV pilot whose series, however, were soon canceled. Pablo Rodríguez's Gardel: Echoes of Silence (on the legendary Tango vocalist
Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel was a singer, songwriter and actor, and is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was born in Toulouse, France, although he never acknowledged his birthplace publicly, and there are still claims of his birth in Uruguay. He lived in Argentina from the age of two...
) met a similar fate. The year 1997, despite these, setbacks, ended on a positive note for local film in Alvaro Buela's deceptively simple A Way to Dance and Diego Arsuaga's film-noir, Otario.
Uruguayan Directors pursued increasing varied subject matter from 1998, including Leonardo Ricagni's surreal The Chevrolet and Esteban Schroeder's mystery, The Vineyard. Luis Nieto took an Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
-esque turn with The Memory of Blas Quadra (2000), and Pablo Rodríguez lived down his previous disappointment with Damned Cocaine (2001). Brummell Pommerenck portrayed existential loneliness in Call for the Postman (2001), Luis Nieto returned to deal with a former extremist back from exile in The Southern Star (2002) and Pablo Stoll
Pablo Stoll
Pablo Stoll is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Juan Pablo Rebella first began...
and Juan Pablo Rebella
Juan Pablo Rebella
Juan Pablo Rebella was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Pablo Stoll first began.After graduating in 1999 he...
gave an empathetic portrayal of youth in 25 Watts
25 Watts
25 watts is a 2001 Uruguayan urban comedy drama film directed and written by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. The independent film picture stars Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, and Alfonso Tort...
(2002); their dark comedy, Whisky
Whisky (film)
Whisky is an Argentine-German-Spanish-Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has very sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very...
(2003) earned the Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
. Marcelo Bertalmío's existential Noise (2005) was well-received and won the Audience Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival.
The rustic Uruguayan countryside became of interest to foreign film makers, as well. Swiss Director Bruno Soldini used the setting for The Brickmasons of Tapes a 1989 period piece filmed in Italian. Local film makers, likewise, took to the same bucolic setting to make two Uruguay/Argentina co-productions, Diego Arsuaga's unyielding The Last Train
El último tren
El último tren is a 2002 Uruguayan and Argentine, comedy drama film, directed by Diego Arsuaga, and written by Arsuaga, Fernando León de Aranoa, and Beda Docampo Feijóo...
(2002) and Guillermo Casanova's sentimental The Trip to the Ocean (2003).
Uruguayan film production continues to make its modest though influential presence felt in the vast array of Latin American film, turning out four to six films a year and contributing to other countries' film industries, as well, with talent such as Director Israel Adrián Caetano
Israel Adrián Caetano
Israel Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...
, who has made a number of acclaimed Argentine films since co-directing Pizza, Beer and Smokes in 1997.