Marcelo Mosenson
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Marcelo Mosenson is the founder and executive director of the film production company Nomade Films.
Mosensen was born in Buenos Aires
in 1969. He traveled to Paris at the age of 20 where he met his mentor, cinematographer Ricardo Aronovich. He worked as his assistant on a number of films in France and Argentina. They wrote the book Exponer una historia: la fotografía cinematográfica (Exposing a Story: the cinematographic photography), originally published in Spanish by Gedisa, and most recently in French by Dujarris and in Portuguese by Griphus.
Before returning to Argentina, he has worked for filmmaker, Costa Gavras, in the film La petite apocalypse (The Little Apocalypse).
Upon his return to Argentina he made two award winning documentaries Bajo el mismo techo (Under the Same Roof, 1996) and Nadie se parece tanto a si mismo como cuando intenta ser distinto (The more you try to be different, the more you look like yourself, 1997)
In 1998 he received a grant from the Argentine National Fund for the Arts in conjunction with the U.S. Fulbright Foundation
. Two years later he receives a national Antorchas grant which supported him in obtaining a Master’s Degree in Film at The New School
University (NYC). In New York he taught scriptwriting at Ramapo College
while working for New York Times Television (NYTTV) collaborating on the production of various documentaries.
(Neighbors, 2006). written and directed by Marcelo Mosenson; and his first feature, De cerca nadie es normal (No one’s normal when you’re near, 2008)
, which he wrote and directed.
He is currently working with Executive Producer Mario Levit, on the funding of his feature film, Lágrimas (Tears).
Tears’ script participated in the Sundance Lab
(U.S.), the Film Lab organized by the Fundación Antorchas (Argentina) with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund and the Göteborg Film Festival
Fund. Tears also got into the finals of the script competition organized by the Fundation Emergence (France). The movie also participated in the First Mercosur Producers Market in Buenos Aires, the IV International Film and Audiovisual Seminar, SEMCINE 2008 in Salvador, Brazil, and in the International Co-Production Encounters and Lab of the Cartagena International Film Festival
in March, 2009.
Mosensen is planning to take part in the jury of the 2009 Cairo International Film Festival
.
Script: Marcelo Mosenson & Pablo Del Teso
Direction: Marcelo Mosenson
Currently seeking funding
Tears was chosen amongst 5 Latin-American projects to attend the scriptwriting workshop organized by The Sundance Institute
in Barcelona. At the same time it was selected by The Antorchas Foundation (Buenos Aires) in collaboration with The Hübert Bals Fund and The Göteborg Film Festival
Fund to participate of the workshop for feature film analysis. It also took part in the pitching sessions at The Buenos Aires Lab of The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
(BAFICI).
Tears was also finalist of the Emergence Contest in Paris, presided by actor Gérard Depardieu
. It has recently participated of The First Mercosur Producers Market in Buenos Aires, the IV International Film and Audiovisual Seminar, SEMCINE 2008 in Salvador, Brazil, and was selected to participate in the International Co-Production Encounters and Lab of the Cartagena International Film Festival
in March 2009.
Fiction (2010)
Script: Marcelo Mosenson
Co-Writer : Santiago Kovadloff
Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Currently in script and project development.
Documentary (2010)
Producer | Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Currently seeking funding.
The skin was chosen to participate in the DocBsAs Documentary Forum, and it’s pitching sessions for project development.
Script and Direction: Marcelo Mosenson
Video / Color / 84 min.
Currently seeking distribution.
Official Selection, Competition for Digital Feature Films, Cairo International Film Festival
.
Selected to take part in the Festival del Cinema Latinoamericano de Trieste, Italy and the MARFICI 2009 (Mar del Plata International Independent Film Festival).
It participates in the Mercato Internazionale del Film of the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma.
Shown at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
in NYC, the Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground in Buenos Aires, and the Centro Cultural Recoleta
, in Buenos Aires.
Script and Direction: Marcelo Mosenson
Super 16 mm / Color / 20 min.
It received the Special Jury Prize in the Sixth Edition of the University of Verano (France) organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, sponsored by the DGA
(Directors Guild of America
), the MPA
(Motion Picture Association
), SACEM
(Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique
), and the WGA
(Writers Guild of America
). It participated in several international film festivals such as: Carrefour des Cinémas festival, Paris, 2005. The XVIII Argentinian Conference of Independent Film and Video of UNCIPAR, Buenos Aires, 2006.
It also participated in The International Film Festival of Sax (May, 2006), The Iberamerican Competition of the Huesca Film Festival (June, 2006), and The International Festival of Independent Cinema of Elche (Julio, 2006). It was also invited to participate in the prestigious International Short film Competition of the Nation of Bidasoa (Navarra, Spain) and The El Ojo Cojo Film Festival of Madrid.
Vecinos was screened at the Cannes Film Festival
Market (May, 2006).
Vecinos was screened in the 3rd Argentinische Filmtage, Leipzig (Argentinian Cinema Showcase in Leipzig, Germany), 2009
(The Independent Film Channel
, USA-Canada) programmed it for its 2008-2009 schedule.
I.Sat
(Argentina): programmed it for its 2007-2008 schedule.
MovieOla
Producer | Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Video - Color - 47 min.
In 1998 it received an award from the Secretary of Culture of the Nation of Argentina.
Among the festivals in which it participated were: The Latino Festival of Montreal (2000), The International Festival of Uruguay in Montevideo (1997), and The II International Theater Festival of Buenos Aires (1999).
It was also screened at The Recoleta Cultural Center
(1998), The Filmoteca of Buenos Aires (1999), the exhibition of Independent Films of the Cities (1999) and The VI Santa Fe Film and Video Exhibition (1998).
Producer | Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Video - B & W - 52 min.
Shot in Buenos Aires and Paraguay in 1996. It won the First Prize at the XV International Film Festival of Uruguay in Montevideo (1997), the Special Jury Prize at the First Documentary Film Festival of Avellaneda in Buenos Aires (1997), and the First Prize at the VI Video Festival of Buenos Aires (1997).
It also participated in The Havana Film Festival
, in Cuba in December 1996, the International Human Rights Festival of Latin America in Buenos Aires in March 1997, The VI Exhibition of Venezuela organized by its National Library in September, 1998, in The Santa Fe Film and Video Exhibition in December 1997, the exhibition of Independent Films of the Cities (1999) and The Filmoteca of Buenos Aires (1999).
In 1996 it was screened at the Recoleta Cultural Center
and the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.
It was also broadcasted by El Canal de la Mujer in 1996/1997 and was programmed for the 2009 season of Canal 7 Argentina
.
Mosensen was born in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
in 1969. He traveled to Paris at the age of 20 where he met his mentor, cinematographer Ricardo Aronovich. He worked as his assistant on a number of films in France and Argentina. They wrote the book Exponer una historia: la fotografía cinematográfica (Exposing a Story: the cinematographic photography), originally published in Spanish by Gedisa, and most recently in French by Dujarris and in Portuguese by Griphus.
Before returning to Argentina, he has worked for filmmaker, Costa Gavras, in the film La petite apocalypse (The Little Apocalypse).
Upon his return to Argentina he made two award winning documentaries Bajo el mismo techo (Under the Same Roof, 1996) and Nadie se parece tanto a si mismo como cuando intenta ser distinto (The more you try to be different, the more you look like yourself, 1997)
In 1998 he received a grant from the Argentine National Fund for the Arts in conjunction with the U.S. Fulbright Foundation
Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the...
. Two years later he receives a national Antorchas grant which supported him in obtaining a Master’s Degree in Film at The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
University (NYC). In New York he taught scriptwriting at Ramapo College
Ramapo College
Ramapo College of New Jersey is a public liberal arts and professional studies institution of the New Jersey system of higher education.- Location :...
while working for New York Times Television (NYTTV) collaborating on the production of various documentaries.
Nomade Films
He returned to Argentina in 2003 and created his film production company, Nomade Films. Nomade Films produced the play, Amanecí y tu no estabas (2007), directed by Alicia Zanca. It also produced the award winning short film VecinosVecinos
Vecinos is a Mexican TV series adapted in 2005 by actor Eugenio Derbez from Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva. The series portrays the life of everyday people in Mexican barrios, where anything can be found — the jealous housewife, the spinster, the strange family, etc...
(Neighbors, 2006). written and directed by Marcelo Mosenson; and his first feature, De cerca nadie es normal (No one’s normal when you’re near, 2008)
No One's Normal When You're Near
No One's Normal When You're Near is a feature film directed and written in 2008 by Marcelo Mosenson and produced by Nomade Films, which is currently seeking distribution.-Festival Run:...
, which he wrote and directed.
He is currently working with Executive Producer Mario Levit, on the funding of his feature film, Lágrimas (Tears).
Tears’ script participated in the Sundance Lab
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981 that actively advances the work of filmmakers and storytellers worldwide...
(U.S.), the Film Lab organized by the Fundación Antorchas (Argentina) with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund and the Göteborg Film Festival
Gothenburg Film Festival
Göteborg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and...
Fund. Tears also got into the finals of the script competition organized by the Fundation Emergence (France). The movie also participated in the First Mercosur Producers Market in Buenos Aires, the IV International Film and Audiovisual Seminar, SEMCINE 2008 in Salvador, Brazil, and in the International Co-Production Encounters and Lab of the Cartagena International Film Festival
Cartagena Film Festival
The Cartagena Film Festival, or Festival Internacional de Cine y T.V. de Cartagena de Indias. is a Colombian film festival which focuses on the promotion of Colombian television programs, Latin American films, and videos...
in March, 2009.
Mosensen is planning to take part in the jury of the 2009 Cairo International Film Festival
Cairo International Film Festival
The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first international film festival held in the Arab world...
.
Lágrimas (Tears)
Narrative Drama (2010)Script: Marcelo Mosenson & Pablo Del Teso
Direction: Marcelo Mosenson
Currently seeking funding
Tears was chosen amongst 5 Latin-American projects to attend the scriptwriting workshop organized by The Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981 that actively advances the work of filmmakers and storytellers worldwide...
in Barcelona. At the same time it was selected by The Antorchas Foundation (Buenos Aires) in collaboration with The Hübert Bals Fund and The Göteborg Film Festival
Gothenburg Film Festival
Göteborg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and...
Fund to participate of the workshop for feature film analysis. It also took part in the pitching sessions at The Buenos Aires Lab of The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
The Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.The festival is managed by the Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, it is not...
(BAFICI).
Tears was also finalist of the Emergence Contest in Paris, presided by actor Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
. It has recently participated of The First Mercosur Producers Market in Buenos Aires, the IV International Film and Audiovisual Seminar, SEMCINE 2008 in Salvador, Brazil, and was selected to participate in the International Co-Production Encounters and Lab of the Cartagena International Film Festival
Cartagena Film Festival
The Cartagena Film Festival, or Festival Internacional de Cine y T.V. de Cartagena de Indias. is a Colombian film festival which focuses on the promotion of Colombian television programs, Latin American films, and videos...
in March 2009.
Rody
(Production Title)Fiction (2010)
Script: Marcelo Mosenson
Co-Writer : Santiago Kovadloff
Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Currently in script and project development.
La Piel (The Skin)
(Production Title)Documentary (2010)
Producer | Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Currently seeking funding.
The skin was chosen to participate in the DocBsAs Documentary Forum, and it’s pitching sessions for project development.
De Cerca nadie es normal (No one’s normal when you’re near)
Fiction (2008)Script and Direction: Marcelo Mosenson
Video / Color / 84 min.
Currently seeking distribution.
Official Selection, Competition for Digital Feature Films, Cairo International Film Festival
Cairo International Film Festival
The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first international film festival held in the Arab world...
.
Selected to take part in the Festival del Cinema Latinoamericano de Trieste, Italy and the MARFICI 2009 (Mar del Plata International Independent Film Festival).
It participates in the Mercato Internazionale del Film of the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma.
Shown at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
__notoc__The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California...
in NYC, the Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground in Buenos Aires, and the Centro Cultural Recoleta
Centro Cultural Recoleta
The Recoleta Cultural Centre is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the barrio of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina....
, in Buenos Aires.
Vecinos (Neighbors)
Narrative DramaScript and Direction: Marcelo Mosenson
Super 16 mm / Color / 20 min.
It received the Special Jury Prize in the Sixth Edition of the University of Verano (France) organized by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, sponsored by the DGA
Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...
(Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...
), the MPA
Motion Picture Association
The Motion Picture Association is the international counterpart of the Motion Picture Association of America.-History:The MPA starting out as the Motion Picture Association of America was started in 1922, as a trade organization for American Film industry...
(Motion Picture Association
Motion Picture Association
The Motion Picture Association is the international counterpart of the Motion Picture Association of America.-History:The MPA starting out as the Motion Picture Association of America was started in 1922, as a trade organization for American Film industry...
), SACEM
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.-History:...
(Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.-History:...
), and the WGA
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
(Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
). It participated in several international film festivals such as: Carrefour des Cinémas festival, Paris, 2005. The XVIII Argentinian Conference of Independent Film and Video of UNCIPAR, Buenos Aires, 2006.
It also participated in The International Film Festival of Sax (May, 2006), The Iberamerican Competition of the Huesca Film Festival (June, 2006), and The International Festival of Independent Cinema of Elche (Julio, 2006). It was also invited to participate in the prestigious International Short film Competition of the Nation of Bidasoa (Navarra, Spain) and The El Ojo Cojo Film Festival of Madrid.
Vecinos was screened 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...
Market (May, 2006).
Vecinos was screened in the 3rd Argentinische Filmtage, Leipzig (Argentinian Cinema Showcase in Leipzig, Germany), 2009
TV Broadcasting
IFCIndependent Film Channel
The Independent Film Channel is an American cable TV network that airs independent film and related programming. IFC programming includes commercially interrupted feature-length films, original documentaries, shorts, animated series, original series, acquired series, and content exclusively for...
(The Independent Film Channel
Independent Film Channel
The Independent Film Channel is an American cable TV network that airs independent film and related programming. IFC programming includes commercially interrupted feature-length films, original documentaries, shorts, animated series, original series, acquired series, and content exclusively for...
, USA-Canada) programmed it for its 2008-2009 schedule.
I.Sat
I.Sat
I.Sat is an Argentine cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America and Time Warner. It airs movies, series, music and shows focused on people aged 18 to 39...
(Argentina): programmed it for its 2007-2008 schedule.
MovieOla
Movieola
Movieola is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Channel Zero Inc....
Nadie se parece tanto a sí mismo como cuanto intenta ser distinto (The more you try to be different, the more you look like yourself)
DocumentaryProducer | Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Video - Color - 47 min.
In 1998 it received an award from the Secretary of Culture of the Nation of Argentina.
Among the festivals in which it participated were: The Latino Festival of Montreal (2000), The International Festival of Uruguay in Montevideo (1997), and The II International Theater Festival of Buenos Aires (1999).
It was also screened at The Recoleta Cultural Center
Centro Cultural Recoleta
The Recoleta Cultural Centre is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the barrio of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina....
(1998), The Filmoteca of Buenos Aires (1999), the exhibition of Independent Films of the Cities (1999) and The VI Santa Fe Film and Video Exhibition (1998).
Bajo un mismo techo (Under the Same Roof)
DocumentaryProducer | Director: Marcelo Mosenson
Video - B & W - 52 min.
Shot in Buenos Aires and Paraguay in 1996. It won the First Prize at the XV International Film Festival of Uruguay in Montevideo (1997), the Special Jury Prize at the First Documentary Film Festival of Avellaneda in Buenos Aires (1997), and the First Prize at the VI Video Festival of Buenos Aires (1997).
It also participated in The Havana Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Spanish-language filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, and in English as Festival of New Latinamerican Cinema of La Havana.The festival takes place...
, in Cuba in December 1996, the International Human Rights Festival of Latin America in Buenos Aires in March 1997, The VI Exhibition of Venezuela organized by its National Library in September, 1998, in The Santa Fe Film and Video Exhibition in December 1997, the exhibition of Independent Films of the Cities (1999) and The Filmoteca of Buenos Aires (1999).
In 1996 it was screened at the Recoleta Cultural Center
Centro Cultural Recoleta
The Recoleta Cultural Centre is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the barrio of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina....
and the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.
It was also broadcasted by El Canal de la Mujer in 1996/1997 and was programmed for the 2009 season of Canal 7 Argentina
Canal 7 Argentina
Canal Siete, TV Pública or TV Pública Digital is an Argentine television network founded on October 17, 1951. Between 1979 and 1999, the network was known as Argentina Televisora Color . During the 1978 World Cup, it was known as A78TV.Owned, financed and operated by the Argentine State, Canal 7 is...
.