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Gastón Duprat is a director, screenwriter and film producer. He started his career in video art, experimental cinema and television. He has made a dozen films, with which he obtained more than thirty international awards, among which stand out The Man Next Door (2009), The Distinguished Citizen (2016), My Masterpiece (2018) and Official Competition (2020).My Masterpiece (Mi Obra Maestra) 2018, Buenos Aires AR (Argentina 17)- Writer
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Sebastián Borensztein was born on 22 April 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Chinese Take-Away (2011), Heroic Losers (2019) and Collateral Man (1997).Heroic Loosers 2019 (starring Ricardo Darin), Chinese Take-away **** 2011 (starring Ricardo Darin) AR- Director
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Luis Puenzo was born on 19 February 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and producer, known for The Official Story (1985), The Plague (1992) and Broken Silence (2002).The official story (La historia oficial) *** (Always are two versions of the story: the official and the real) Oscar won Best Foreign Film, 1986 AR- Actor
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Juan Diego Botto was born on 29 August 1975 in Buenos Aires City, Distrito Federal, Argentina. He is an actor and director, known for La Celestina (1996), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and On the Fringe (2022). He has been married to Olga Rodriguez since 2015. They have one child.On the Fringe 2022 AR- Producer
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Damián Szifron was born on 9 July 1975 in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a producer and editor, known for Wild Tales (2014), To Catch a Killer (2023) and Los simuladores (2002). He is married to María Marull. They have two children.Relatos Salvajes 2014 Wild Tales (We can all lose control - 6 Segments) (starring in a segment Ricardo Darin) AR- Director
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Luis Ortega was born on 12 July 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for El Angel (2018), Caja negra (2002) and Dromómanos (2012).El Angel 2018 - Buenos Aires, AR- Producer
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Gabriel Alejandro Schmidt was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's the eldest boy of 9 brothers and sisters. His parents are Angela Rodriguez, a Nurse, and Oscar Schmidt, an Electronic Technician. Gabriel is of Argentinean, Basque, German and Spanish ancestry and comes from a large and close family, with a complex history, and they are mostly in Argentina.
Gabriel has 4 children: Paula Estefania Schmidt, Priscilla Gabriela Schmidt, Alexander Mark Schmidt and Victoria Bianca Schmidt. He's married to Juneta Ozolina, but peacefully separated. Juneta is a professional ballet dancer for over 3 decades and was born in Latvia. She is the Choreographer Director of the children ballet school, Malibu Dolphins Ballet, in Malibu.
Gabriel had a passion for Martial Arts and dancing. He admires art, theater, ballet and Opera. He was scouted in a club during his teen years and was invited to dance in a weekly TV dancing show in Buenos Aires. He entered the School of Nursing in Buenos Aires and graduated at a very young age. He developed a successful career within the Healthcare industry, achieving his highest position as Chief Nursing Officer at age 24. He lived in 5 different countries around the world. He moved to the United States in 1997.
He owned businesses in Argentina and the United States. Arriving in California in 2006 along with his family, Gabriel went back to work as a Registered Nurse in hospitals and Surgery Centers, which led to private duty as well. He's still work in a Level 1 Trauma Center in Los Angeles.
In 2010, he met and befriended actor and comedian Tom Arnold. It was during the time they shared working that Gabriel was exposed in depth to the entertainment industry. Gabriel developed a fast passion for writing and production.
He attended the Hollywood Film Institute for Film Production and Film Director training. He was trained by Dov Simens and follows a model and mentoring from Quentin Tarantino. He merged his marketing education and his business experience with the knowledge of the entertainment industry and founded Swimming Wings Productions Inc. in 2011.
The company owns the rights of several film projects in different stages, music videos, commercials and graphic design. Gabriel leads Swimming Wings Productions, with branches in Malibu and Buenos Aires. He expanded Swimming Wings International to Argentina and is managed by Cintia Schmidt.
During 2012, he finished production on the films Choices and Deceiving Dream, which are competing in film festivals in the USA, England, Canada, Australia, France and Argentina.
He wrote his first screenplay together with actors Tom Arnold and Gene Loveland. The Title: Spychosis, his original idea and story. The film Spychosis is in pre-production. He wrote several screenplays within the same year.
Gabriel is a big fan of the Argentina Soccer National team. He follows soccer, tennis and the NBA.
He is an experienced world traveler.5 minutes 2014 (SOS 5 minutes to live) AR- Writer
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Juan José Campanella was born on 19 July 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Man of Your Dreams (2011) and The Weasel's Tale (2019).The secret in their eyes 2009 "Luna de Avellaneda" (2004) starring Ricardo Darin AR- Director
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German Kral was born in 1968 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Adios Buenos Aires (2023), Our Last Tango (2015) and El último aplauso (2009).Our last Tango 2015 AR- Producer
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Diego Lerman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a film director, scriptwriter and producer. He is graduated from Desing of Image and Sound at the University of Buenos Aires, and Dramatutgy at the Municipal School of Dramatic Arts. In 2002, he was selected for a residency at the Cannes Festival. To date, he has directed six feature-length films. He also served as writer on all six. These films have been recognized in some of the most important film festivals in the world, and screened commercially not just in Latin America, but also in Europe, the United States and Japan. In 2009, he founded the Campo Cine production house with Nicolás Avruj. Campo Cine is very active, having produced many feature-length films, shorts, documentaries and some television series. In the 2014 edition of the Venice Film Festival, he was the President of the Jury of the Venice Days section. He was member also of the Official Jury in Locarno, La Habana, San Sebastian and Chicago Film Festivals. He received the Golden Leopard Award recognition for his work in the Locarno Film Festival He received several prices around the world including Best Script in San Sebastian Competittion, Silver Leopard in Locarno, Best Film in La Habana, Chicago, Miami, Buenos Aires, Istambul among others and won the Critics and Industry Argentinian Film Awards for some of his films. He was the Creator and Showrunner of the acclaimed Argentinian series "La casa" (Netflix). He wrote and direct some theatre plays in Buenos Aires recognized by audience and critic.
Selected Filmography as director- writer - producer "La Prueba"(1999 Shortfilm) "Tan de repente" 2002 feature-length film / Locarno - Silver Leopard) "La guerra de los gimnasios"" (2005 Midle length film / Locarno Official Selection) "Mientras tanto" (2006 feature-length film / Venice - Venice Days) "Servicios prestados" (2007 Docummentary / Locarno Official Selection) "La mirada invisible(2010 feature-length film / Cannes - Quinzaine does Réalisateurs / Netflix) "Refugiado" (2014 feature-length film / Cannes - Quinzaine does Réalisateurs / Netflix) "La casa" (2015 TV Serie / Rotterdam Official Selection / Netflix) "Una especie de familia" (2017 feature-length film Toronto IFF - San Sebastián IFF / Netflix "El suplente" 2021 feature-length film Toronto IFF - San Sebastián IFF)A kind of family *** (Una especie de familia) 2017 AR- Writer
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Santiago Mitre was born on 4 December 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Argentina, 1985 (2022), Paulina (2015) and The Student (2011).La Cordillera (The Summit) 2017 (with Ricardo Darin), el Estudiante (the Student) 2011 AR- Director
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Hugo Santiago has lived in France since 1959. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Music. From 1959 to 1966, he was assistant director to Robert Bresson. He was also a choreographer and metteur en scene for _Histoire du Soldat_ (Stravinsky Festival, 1961). He authored and produced two shorts: _Los Contrabandistas_ (Buenos Aires, 1967) and _Los Taitas_ (Buenos Aires, 1968). From 1970 to 1973 he did research on film.Invasion (based on Jorge Luis Borges story) 1969 AR- Writer
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Lucía Puenzo was born on 28 November 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a writer and director, known for XXY (2007), The German Doctor (2013) and The Fish Child (2009).The German doctor 2015 AR- Producer
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Pablo Trapero was born in San justo, Argentina in 1971. In 1999 he directed his first feature, Mundo Grua, which won the Critics Prize at Venice. In 2002, he opened his production company, Matanza Cine, that produces films for fellow filmmakers, as well as his own. His second feature, El Bonaerense (2002) premiered at Cannes, Familia Rodante (2004) at Venice, and Nacido y Criado (2006) at Toronto. In 2008, Leonera, presented in Competition at Cannes, revealed the talent of Martina Gusman, muse, actress and producer of the cineaste. He returned to Cannes with Carancho (2010) and Elefante Blanco (2012), both in Un Certain Regard. His films have covered the most important festivals, receiving critical acclaim and awards He has sat on the main Festival juries at Venice, San Sebastian and Locarno, among others. In 2014 he served as President of Un Certain Regard in Cannes. In 2015 the Ministry of Culture of France awarded him Chevallier l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, becoming the first south american director in receiving this honor. With his latest film, The Clan, he won the Silver Lion for Best Director in Venice International Film Festival Trapero is one of the biggest creative forces in Latin American Cinema.La Quietud 2015 ♦ AR (watch related trailer, Gr subs)- Producer
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Daniela Goggi is known for Abzurdah (2015), The Rescue: The Weight of the World (2023) and The Red Thread (2016).AR Abzurdah 2015- Director
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Melina Leon is a Peruvian film director whose opera prima, Canción sin Nombre (Song without a Name), premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight 2019, making her the first Peruvian female filmmaker to be invited to the festival. The film was nominated for Best Iberoamerican Feature at the Goya Awards 2022 and was Peru's Oscar® Entry for Best International Feature.
Song without a Name has been selected for over 100 international film festivals winning several awards including Best Director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Cinevision Award for Best Emerging Director at the Munich Film Festival.
Set in Peru, in 1988, the film is inspired by a true account of child trafficking originally reported by Ismael Leon, her father.
An MFA film graduate of Columbia University, her short film El Paraíso de Lili (Lili's Paradise), also set in Peru in 1988, made its international debut at the 47th New York Film Festival.
Her second feature film, the documentary, Lejos del Sol (Far from the Sun), will be shot in LA in 2024.AR- Producer
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then immediately started to film everything he saw, showing it afterwards to everyone. In his teen years, films were his hobby. Sometimes he said to his mother he would go to a friend's home, when in fact he would go to the cinema. His ambition was to know every theatre in the city. Near his house there were two studios, Studios Churubusco and Studios 212. After finishing school, Cuarón decided to study cinema right away. He tried to study at C.C.C. (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica) but wasn't accepted because at that time they weren't accepting students under twenty-four years old. His mother didn't support that idea of cinema, so he studied philosophy in the morning and in the afternoon he went to the C.U.E.C. (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos). During that time he met many people who would later become his collaborators and friends. One of them was Luis Estrada. Cuaron also became good friends with Carlos Marcovich and Emmanuel Lubezki. Luis Estrada directed a short called "Vengance is Mine", on which Alfonso and Emmanuel collaborated. The film was in English, a fact which bothered many teachers of the C.U.E.C. such as Marcela Fernández Violante. The disagreement caused such arguments that in 1985, Alfonso was expelled from the university.
During his time studying at C.U.E.C. he met Mariana Elizondo, and with her he had his first son, Jonás Cuarón. After Alfonso was expelled, he thought he could never be a director and so went on to work in a Museum so he could sustain his family. One day, José Luis García Agraz and Fernando CáMara went to the museum and made an offer to Cuarón. They asked him to work as cable person in "La víspera (1982)", a job which was to prove to be his salvation. After that he was assistant director in Garcia Agraz's "Nocaut (1984)", as well as numerous other films.
He was also second unit director in "Gaby: A True Story (1987)", and co-wrote and directed some episodes in the series "A Hora Marcada (1967)". One New Year's Eve, he decided he would not continue to be an assistant director, and with his brother Carlos started writing what would be his first feature film: "Love in the Time of Hysteria (1991)" (Love in the time of Hysteria). After the screenplay was written, the problem became how to get financial backing for the movie. I.M.C.I.N.E. (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia), which supports movies financially, had already decided which projects it would support that year, much to Alfonso's initial chagrin. However, the director of one of those already-chosen projects was unable to direct it, so his project was canceled, and "Sólo con tu pareja" took its place. Despite this being chosen, there was a lot of tension between Alfonso and the I.M.C.I.N.E. executives. Nevertheless, after the movie was finished, it was a huge success. In Toronto festival the films won many awards, and Alfonso started to be noticed by Hollywood producers. Sydney Pollack was the first one to invite him to shoot in Hollywood. He proposed a feature film to be directed by Alfonso, but the project didn't work and was canceled. Alfonso moved to Los Angeles without anything concrete, and stayed with some friends, as he had no money. Soon after that, Pollack called him again to direct an episode called "Murder, Obliquely (1993)" of the series "Fallen Angels (1993)", that was the first job he had in U.S., and also the first time he worked with Alan Rickman.
After a while, and no real directing jobs, Alfonso wanted to direct something as he needed money. He finally signed a contract with Warner Brothers to direct the film Addicted to Love (1995). However, one night, he read the screenplay for another film, A Little Princess (1995) and fell in love with it. He talked to Warner Brothers and after some meetings he gave up directing "Addicted to Love" in order to do "A Little Princess". Even thought it wasn't a great box office success, the film received two nominations for the Oscars, and won many other awards. After "A Little Princess" Alfonso developed a project with Richard Gere starring. The project was canceled, but Cuarón got an offer from Twentieth Century Fox to direct the modern adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations (1998). He initially didn't want to direct it but the studio insisted, and in the end he accepted it. The experience was very painful and difficult for him mainly because there was never a definitive screenplay.
He then reunited with producer Jorge Vergara and founded both Anhelo Productions and Moonson Productions. Anhelo's first picture was also Alfonso's next film, the erotic road movie "And Your Mother Too (2001)", which was a huge success. During the promotion of the film in Venice, Alfonso met the cinema critic Annalisa Bugliani. They started dating and married that same year. "Children of Men (2006)" was to be Alfonso's next film, a futuristic, dystopian story. During the pre-production of the film, Warner Brothers invited Alfonso to direct the third Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)", an offer which he accepted after some consideration. The film would prove to be the greatest box office success of his career.
In 2003, he had a daughter named Bu Cuaron, and in February 2005 another son, called Olmo Teodoro Cuarón. Alfonso Cuarón signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Brothers, which allowed his films to be distributed world-wide. He directed one five-minute segment of the anthology film Paris, I Love You (2006) with Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier. His next project, the futuristic film Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 having been nominated for three Academy Awards. After his youngest son was diagnosed with autism and the divorce from Annalisa Bugliani he took a break from directing and settled in London where he plans to work on his next projects.
In 2013, Alfonso directed the space thriller Gravity (2013), which would go win 7 academy awards.
Alfonso is the only filmmaker to have ever won twice for a clean sweep for the awards, for "Gravity" and "Roma", for Best Director at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.- Writer
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Guillermo Arriaga was born on 13 March 1958 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and producer, known for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), 21 Grams (2003) and Amores Perros (2000).- Director
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Luis Mandoki was born on 17 August 1954 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Innocent Voices (2004), Angel Eyes (2001) and Trapped (2002).La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas 2012, "Message in a Bottle" (Χαμένες Αγάπες) 1999 - MX- Producer
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Michel Franco was born on 28 August 1979 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and writer, known for New Order (2020), Chronic (2015) and After Lucia (2012).Chronic 2015 MX- Director
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Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene or best director award at Cannes (2006), the second one being Carlos Reygadas in 2012. His six feature films, 'Amores Perros' (2000), '21 Grams' (2003), 'Babel' (2006), 'Biutiful' (2010), 'Birdman' (2014) and 'The Revenant' (2015), have gained critical acclaim world-wide including two Academy Award nominations.
Alejandro González Iñárritu was born in Mexico City.
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a cargo ship at the ages of seventeen and nineteen years, González Iñárritu worked his way across Europe and Africa. He himself has noted that these early travels as a young man have had a great influence on him as a film-maker. The setting of his films have often been in the places he visited during this period.
After his travels, González Iñárritu returned to Mexico City and majored in communications at Universidad Iberoamericana. In 1984, he started his career as a radio host at the Mexican radio station WFM, a rock and eclectic music station. In 1988, he became the director of the station. Over the next five years, González Iñárritu spent his time interviewing rock stars, transmitting live concerts, and making WFM the number one radio station in Mexico. From 1987 to 1989, he composed music for six Mexican feature films. He has stated that he believes music has had a bigger influence on him as an artist than film itself.
In the nineties, González Iñárritu created Z films with Raul Olvera in Mexico. Under Z Films, he started writing, producing and directing short films and advertisements. Making the final transition into T.V Film directing, he studied under well-known Polish theatre director Ludwik Margules, as well as Judith Weston in Los Angeles.
In 1995, González Iñárritu wrote and directed his first T.V pilot for Z Films, called Detras del dinero, -"Behind the Money", starring Miguel Bosé. Z Films went on to be one of the biggest and strongest film production companies in Mexico, launching seven young directors in the feature film arena. In 1999, González Iñárritu directed his first feature film Amores perros, written by Guillermo Arriaga. Amores perros explored Mexican society in Mexico City told via three intertwining stories. In 2000, Amores perros premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Critics Weeks Grand Prize. It also introduced audiences for the first time to Gael García Bernal. Amores perros went on to be nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.
After the success of Amores Perros, González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga revisited the intersecting story structure of Amores perros in González Iñárritu's second film, 21 Grams. The film starred Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, and was presented at the Venice Film Festival, winning the Volpi Cup for actor Sean Penn. At the 2004 Academy Awards, Del Toro and Watts received nominations for their performances.
In 2005 González Iñárritu embarked on his third film, Babel, set in 4 countries on 3 continents, and in 4 different languages. Babel consists of four stories set in Morocco, Mexico, the United States, and Japan. The film stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Adriana Barraza. The majority of the rest of the cast, however, was made up of non-professional actors and some new actors, such as Rinko Kikuchi. It was presented at Cannes 2006, where González Iñárritu earned the Best Director Prize (Prix de la mise en scène). Babel was released in November 2006 and received seven nominations at the 79th Annual Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director nominated for a DGA award and for an Academy Award. Babel went on to win Best Motion Picture in the drama category at the Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2007. Gustavo Santaolalla won the Academy Award that year for Best Original Score. After Babel, Alejandro and his writing partner Guillermo Arriaga professionally parted ways, following González Iñárritu barring Arriaga from the set during filming (Arriaga told the LA Times in 2009 "It had to come to an end, but I still respect González Iñárritu").
In 2008 and 2009, González Iñárritu directed and produced Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem, written by González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, and Nicolas Giacobone. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festial on May 17, 2010. Bardem went on to win Best Actor (shared with Elio Germano for La nostra vita) at Cannes. Biutiful is González Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish since his debut feature Amores perros. For the second time in his career his film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. It was also nominated for the 2011 Golden Globes in the category of Best Foreign Film, for the 2011 BAFTA awards in the category of Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Actor. Javier Bardem's performance was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 2014, González Iñárritu directed Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, and Andrea Riseborough. The film is Iñárritu's first comedy. Birdman is about an actor who played an iconic superhero, and who tries to revive his career by doing a play based on the Raymond Carver short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The film was released on October 17, 2014.
In April 2014, it was announced that González Iñárritu's next film as a director will be The Revenant, which he co-wrote with Mark L. Smith. It is based on the novel of same name by Michael Punke. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Will Poulter with shooting began in September 2014, for a December 25, 2015 release.The Revenant is being filmed in Alberta and B.C. with production scheduled to wrap in February 2015. The film will be a 19th Century period piece, and is described as a "gritty thriller" about a fur trapper who seeks revenge against a group of men who robbed and abandoned him after he was mauled by a grizzly bear.
From 2001 to 2011, González Iñárritu directed several short films.
In 2001, he directed an 11 minute film segment for 11.09.01- which is composed of several short films that explore the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from different points of view around the world.
In 2007, he made ANNA which screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival inside Chacun son cinéma. It was part of the 60th anniversary of the film festival and it was a series of shorts by 33 world-renown film directors.
In 2012, he made the experimental short film Naran Ja: One Act Orange Dance - inspired by L.A Dance Project's premiere performance. The short features excerpts of the new choreography Benjamin Millepied crafted for Moving Parts. The story takes place in a secluded, dusty space and centers around LADP dancer Julia Eichten.
In 2001/2002, González Iñárritu directed "Powder Keg", an episode for the BMW film series The Hire, starring Clive Owen as the driver.
In 2010, González Iñárritu directed Write the Future, a football-themed commercial for Nike ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which went on to win Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions advertising festival.
In 2012, he directed Procter and Gamble's "Best Job" commercial spot for the 2012 Olympic Ceremonies. It went on to win the Best Primetime Commercial Emmy at Creative Arts Emmy Awards.- Director
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Antonio Serrano was born on 17 May 1955 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999), Lucía, Lucía (2003) and Hidalgo. La historia jamás contada (2010).Lucia, Lucia MX- Director
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Film director graduated from CUEC UNAM, now ENAC. He has received the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on several occasions, he was nominated in 2007 for the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut feature Blue Eyelids and won the Sundance Audience Award in 2017 for I Dream in Another Language. In 2021 he released Impossible Things, a film that quickly won over the Mexican public. His film Where the Tracks End was released in 2023 to great acclaim on Netflix.
Contreras has directed television series such as El Chapo, Pedal to the Metal and Belascoarán for Netflix, Before I Forget for HBO MAX and Falco for Amazon, which won the 2019 International Emmy Award. Tengo que morir todas las noches on Paramount+, a series that won Best Director at the SeriesMania festival in France, will soon be released, and he is in post-production of Para siempre, a Netflix original series, in both projects Contreras serves as showrunner.Sueño en otro idioma 2017 MX- Director
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Sebastian Hofmann is an award winning filmmaker whose films have been selected at the Rotterdam Tiger Awards, San Sebastian, Locarno, Fantastic Fest and Sundance, among other prestigious festivals. His latest feature film 'Tiempo Compartido' awarded him the jury prize for best screenwriting at Sundance and was named by Hollywood Reporter 'Talent to watch'. Tiempo Compartido was nominated to five Mexican Academy awards including Best Picture and Best Script winning two Ariel awards for acting. After a successful cinema run in Mexico it was later released as a Netflix Original Film worldwide.
Halley, his first feature film, has been selected to over 60 festivals and has won 15 international awards, including the Cinevision Award (Munich Film Festival), Noves Visions Award (Sitges Fantastic Film Festival), and Best Film at the London East End Film Festival. In 2013 Halley had a successful cinema run in Mexico and was sold to over 60 countries via the AMC/Sundance channel. Halley was co- produced by the well-established production company Mantarraya, responsible for the films of Carlos Reygadas and Amat Escalante. Sebastian has received twice the Hubert Bals Fund and once the prestigious Netherlands Film Fund.
In 2011 he established PIANO with producer Julio Chavezmontes as a platform for cutting edge cinematic work. In 2018 Piano had a feature film in the official competition section at Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and Venice. In 2021 Piano will release 'Annette' by Leos Carax starring Adam Driver. 'Siberia' by Abel Ferrara starring Willem Dafoe and 'Memoria' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul starring Tilda Swinton.
Sebastian has a B.F.A. from the prestigious Pasadena Art Center College of Design. He studied a master class in screenwriting with Todd Solondz in 2006. He is represented by WME agency and managed by Grandview LA.Tiempo compartido 2020 MX- Writer
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Alejandra Márquez Abella was born on 30 April 1982 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. She is a writer and director, known for Northern Skies Over Empty Space (2022), The Good Girls (2018) and Semana Santa (2015).(The good girls) Las niñas bien 2019 MX- Music Department
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Alejandro Pelayo is known for Reparación (2006), Ana Tramel. El juego (2021) and Malas temporadas (2005).Miroslava 1993 MX (The life of the 50's recknown Mexican actress, Miroslava Stern)- Director
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Roberto Sneider was born on 1 September 1962 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for You're Killing Me Susana (2016), Tear This Heart Out (2008) and Shameless (2011).Suzanne you kill me (Me estás matando Suzana) 2016 MX- Writer
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Cesc Gay was born in 1967 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is a writer and director, known for Truman (2015), En la ciudad (2003) and Nico and Dani (2000).Truman 2015 ES (Spain 13)- Writer
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The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the university there, where his close friends included Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca.
After moving to Paris, Buñuel did a variety of film-related odd jobs in Paris, including working as an assistant to director Jean Epstein. With financial assistance from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film, the 17-minute Un chien andalou (1929), in 1929, and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its shocking imagery (much of which - like the sliced eyeball at the beginning - still packs a punch even today). It made a deep impression on the Surrealist Group, who welcomed Buñuel into their ranks.
The following year, sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first feature, the scabrous witty and violent L'Age d'Or (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career. That career, though, seemed almost over by the mid-1930s, as he found work increasingly hard to come by and after the Spanish Civil War he emigrated to the US where he worked for the Museum of Modern Art and as a film dubber for Warner Bros.
Moving to Mexico in the late 1940s, he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention with the lacerating study of Mexican street urchins in The Young and the Damned (1950), winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.
But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries (though many of them are well worth seeking out). But in 1961, General Franco, anxious to be seen to be supporting Spanish culture invited Buñuel back to his native country - and Bunuel promptly bit the hand that fed him by making Viridiana (1961), which was banned in Spain on the grounds of blasphemy, though it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
This inaugurated Buñuel's last great period when, in collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière he made seven extraordinary late masterpieces, starting with Diary of a Chambermaid (1964). Although far glossier and more expensive, and often featuring major stars such as Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve, the films showed that even in old age Buñuel had lost none of his youthful vigour.
After saying that every one of his films from Belle de Jour (1967) onwards would be his last, he finally kept his promise with That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), after which he wrote a memorable (if factually dubious) autobiography, in which he said he'd be happy to burn all the prints of all his films- a classic Surrealist gesture if ever there was one.
Fan of the Surrealism movement in Spain (Salvator Dali, Luis Aragon, Diego Rivera), adopted it in his Movies - thus called "Father of Surrealism" in Cinema. Cet obscur objet du desir 1977, Le Charme Discret de la Bougeoisie 1972, "Tristana" ('70), La Voie Lactée 1969, "Belle de Jour" ('67), Angel Exterminator ('64) (Bodil Award); (watch a sequence), Viridiana ('61) - ES- Writer
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Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did not agree on Buñuel's anti-clericalism. While Dalí's painting style became increasingly conventional, he worked on projects with Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, for whom he wrote the dream sequence of Spellbound (1945). Plans on a movie with the Marx Brothers were dropped. The money Dalí earned in Hollywood and elsewhere, along with his racism and his fascination for Europe's fascist dictators, put an end to his relations with the (at that time mostly trotskyist) surrealists, whose leading figure André Breton since nicknamed Dalí "Avida Dollars" (anagram).ES- Writer
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Fernando León de Aranoa was born on 26 May 1968 in Madrid, Spain. He is a writer and director, known for A Perfect Day (2015), The Good Boss (2021) and Mondays in the Sun (2002).A Perfect Day 2012, Loving Pablo *** 2017 Madrid, ES- Writer
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Bigas Luna was born on 19 March 1946 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Jamón, Jamón (1992), Caniche (1979) and Anguish (1987). He was married to Celia Orós. He died on 6 April 2013 in La Riera de Gaià, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.Son del mar 2015, Jamon, Jamon (Life in poverty, misery and love) 1992 (1946-2013) Barcelona (Catalania), ES- Writer
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The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study filmmaking because he didn't have the money to afford it. Besides, the filmmaking schools were closed in early 70s by Franco's government. Instead, he found a job in the Spanish phone company and saved his salary to buy a Super 8 camera. From 1972 to 1978, he devoted himself to make short films with the help of of his friends. The "premieres" of those early films were famous in the rapidly growing world of the Spanish counter-culture. In few years, Almodóvar became a star of "La Movida", the pop cultural movement of late 70s Madrid. His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980), was made in 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm for public release. In 1987, he and his brother Agustín Almodóvar established their own production company: El Deseo, S. A. The "Almodóvar phenomenon" has reached all over the world, making his films very popular in many countries."Los Abracos Rotos" (Ραγισμένες Αγκαλιές) 2009, "Volver" *** (Γύρνα Πίσω) 2006, "La ley del deseo" *** (Ο Νόμος του Πόθου) 1988, Carne Trémula (Καυτή Σάρκα) 1997 - Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha ES- Writer
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Fernando Arrabal was born on 11 August 1932 in Melilla, Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, Spain. He is a writer and actor, known for L'arbre de Guernica (1975), Long Live Death (1971) and Odyssey of the Pacific (1982). He has been married to Luce Moreau since 1 February 1958.ES- Director
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Víctor Erice was born on 30 June 1940 in Karrantza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Close Your Eyes (2023), El Sur (1983) and The Spirit of the Beehive (1973).Ten minutes older Collective (Segment: Lifeline) 2002, El Sur (the South) 1985 (starring Omero Antonutti), The spirit of the beehive 1973 ES- Producer
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He has an extensive filmography dating back to 1993, also as a Producer and Screenplay writer for all of the projects he has directed, in conjunction with his film studies in both New York and Barcelona.
In 1996, at the age of 18, he directed his first feature-length film, Torrella, una vida pel cinema (1997), a biographical documentary on the life of Catalan writer Josep Torrella.
In 2000, Rubió began his studies at the Micro Obert film school in Barcelona. As his first-year final project, he completed what became his first critical success, his Short Mohamed (2001), which was selected to compete in various International Film Festivals, and which won him, along with other awards, a Scholarship to further his studies at the New York Film Academy.
In 2005, Rubió continued his film studies at ESCAC (Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalunya) while simultaneously directing his personal projects.
It was during his formative years at the ESCAC, specifically over the course of 2008, that brought about a new string of successes for Rubió. His Short Silenci (2007) won the 2008 Golden Coconut for Best Short Film, at the Miami Underground Film Festival. In August of that same year, the well-known Director Allison Anders, whom Rubió had simply maintained a friendly online correspondence with, selected another of his recent Shorts, Madison Class of '64 (2006), to be released at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles, California, as part of the Don't Knock the Rock Film and Music Festival, which Anders herself presides. And also within that same year, and also for his Short Silenci (2007), he won the prize for the Best Short Film at the IV Inquiet Valencian Film Festival.
In 2009, Rubió began a phase in his professional career in which he worked two jobs to make ends meet. Both jobs remained well within the audiovisual sector, the first one as a teacher and the second as an on-set electrician; a job which would take him to more than a few different movie sets, always in the hope of getting paid on time. The job as a teacher was to be the source of his first real paycheck and continuous career choice he periodically returns to while nurturing his ultimate goals in the industry such as creating and participating in new projects as a Producer, a Screenwriter and as a Director; as evidenced by two projects in particular titled Both a friend and a reason to smile (2011) and Més enllà del riu (2012).
10 more years have passed of projects that he has managed to build, which are also 10 years of continuing to exhibit his work in festivals around the world, of which the award in Italy for the Best Documentary is worth highlighting, for Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze (2008) in 2018, within the Sicily International Film Festival, held in Syracuse, on the island of Sicily.La mirada entomologa A documentary ES- Writer
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Spanish director, writer, producer (2 films) and actor (2 films). His interest in cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music, and his brother, Antonio, who was a painter, the passion for art. When he was an teenager he started to practice photography, and in 1950 he made his first illustrated feature films with a 16 mm camera. Carlos Saura is an excellent photographer, an activity that he shares in a sporadic way with the making of films.
He then moved to Madrid to continue his Industrial Engineering career, but his vocation for photography, cinema and journalism made him leave his studies and matriculate at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Estudios Cinematográficos (Cinematographic Study and Research Institute). Sporadically, he combined his cinematographic studies with the courses at the Escuela de Periodismo (Journalism School). In 1957 he finished studying and got the director diploma. At the same time, he finished his end-of-career short film La tarde del domingo (1957). He continued as a professor until 1963. In that year he was removed from the school for strictly political reasons (Franco's censorship).
In 1959 he filmed The Delinquents (1960). In this film he tried to create a sort of Spanish Neo-Realism by tackling the juvenile delinquency in the Madrid's poor quarters from a sociological point of view. In his first stage as director he tried to take a position in favour of outcast people, and he got to make a both lyric and documentary-style cinema.
Saura is a well accepted director both nationally and internationally, and in proof of it he won many awards among which there are the following ones: Silver Bear in the Berlin Festival for The Hunt (1966), in 1965, and for Peppermint Frappé (1967), in 1967. Special Jury Awards in Cannes for Cousin Angelica (1974), in 1973, and for Cría Cuervos (1976), in 1975. Also, the film Mama Turns 100 (1979) got an Oscar nomination in 1979 as the best foreign film, and it also won the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastian Festival. In 1990, he won two Goya awards as best adapted screenplay writer and best director.Cria Cuervos 1969 ES- Producer
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Trueba studied Imagen at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, was cinema critic for the newspaper 'El País' and for 'La Guía del Ocio' and also founded the journal "Casablanca". At the movies his first success was Opera Prima (1980) following the style of the "comedia madrileña". He had major success with Sé infiel y no mires con quién (1985) starting a longer colaboration with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez.The artist and the model 2017 ES- Writer
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Antonio Hernández was born in 1953 in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain. He is a writer and producer, known for En la ciudad sin límites (2002), The Borgia (2006) and El menor de los males (2007).En la ciudad sin limites 2002 ES- Director
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Aritz Moreno is known for Cólera (2013), Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019) and Moscas (2023).Ventajas de viajar en tren (Advantages of travelling by train) 2019 San Sebastian, ES- Writer
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Jonás Trueba was born in 1981 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He is a writer and director, known for The August Virgin (2019), The Reconquest (2016) and The Romantic Exiles (2015).La virgen de agosto 2019 ES- Writer
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Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Thesis (1996). His film Open Your Eyes (1997) was a huge success in Spain and was distributed worldwide. It was remade in Hollywood by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz (also the star of the original version) and Cameron Diaz. The Others (2001) is Amenábar's first English language film.- Director
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Patricio Guzmán was born on 11 August 1941 in Santiago, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975) and The Southern Cross (1991).Nostalgia for the light 2010, Documentary - Santiago CL- Director
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Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s World Cinema, providing more intellectual fun and artistic experimentation, shot for shot, than any filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly assaulted the preconceptions of film art, this frightfully prolific figure -he made over 100 films in 40 years- did not adhere to any one style of filmmaking. He worked in 35mm, 16mm and video, for theatrical release and for European TV, and on documentary and fiction features and shorts. His career began in avant-garde theatre where, between 1956 and 1962, he wrote over 100 plays. Although he never directed any of these productions, he did dabble in TV and filmmaking in the early 1960s. In 1968, with the release of his first completed feature, the Cassavetes-like Three Sad Tigers (1968), Ruiz became one of the key Chilean directors of New Latin American Cinema. A committed though critical supporter of the Marxist government of Salvador Allende, Ruiz was forced to flee his country after the fascist coup of 1973. Living in exile in Paris from that time onwards, he found a forum for his ideas in European TV and was championed by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, several of whom appeared in his first European successes, The Suspended Vocation (1978) and L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978), two enigmatic Pierre Klossowski adaptations. Between 1980 and his death in 2011, Ruiz was one of the world's most productive but least known auteurs, in part through a long-term working relationship with Portuguese producer Paulo Branco. Other regular collaborators included Ruiz's wife and editor Valeria Sarmiento, composer Jorge Arriagada, cinematographers Sacha Vierny, Henri Alekan and Ricardo Aronovich, writers Gilbert Adair and Pascal Bonitzer, and actor Melvil Poupaud. Key early works from this period included the surrealistic masterpieces Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983), City of Pirates (1983) and Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984), three of his many French-Portuguese co-productions perversely yet charmingly addressing the recurring Ruizian themes of childhood, exile, and maritime and rural folklore. In the 1990s, Ruiz embarked on larger projects with prominent actors such as John Hurt, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and John Malkovich, alternating this sporadic mainstream art-house endeavour with his usual low-budget experimental productions and the teaching of his Poetics of Cinema (two volumes of which he published in 1995 and 2007). In the 1990s and 2000s, he also shot several films and TV series' in Chile, though usually without Chilean funding. Ruiz is beloved among cinephiles as a poet of oneiric imagery and a fabulist of labyrinthine stories-within-stories whose films slip effortlessly from reality to imagination and back again. A manipulator of wild intellectual games in which the rules are forever changing, Ruiz's techniques were as varied as film itself; a collection of bizarre angles, close-ups and deep-focus compositions, bewildering POV shots, dazzling colours, and labyrinthine narratives which weave and dodge the viewer's grasp with every shot. As original as Ruiz was, one can tell much about him by the diversity of his influences; he was clearly inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Louis Stevenson, Orson Welles, "Left Bank" New Wave directors such as Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, and baroque low-budget Hollywood B-movie directors like Edgar G. Ulmer, Ford Beebe and Reginald Le Borg. His erudition also extended to medieval theology, Renaissance theatre and quantum physics. Ruiz remains a much-admired auteur on the European continent, having won prestigious prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastián, Locarno, Rome and Rotterdam. He is little-known in his native Chile, however, despite having made the widely seen Little White Dove (1992), receiving several major arts prizes and having a National Day of Mourning dedicated to him on the day of his burial there. In the English-speaking world, only a handful of Ruiz's films have been distributed and it is on these few films that his reputation there is built: most notably, major art-house fare such as the Ophüls- and Visconti-inspired Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999) but also Comedy of Innocence (2000), Klimt (2006) and Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) and straight-to-video thriller pastiches like Shattered Image (1998) and Blind Revenge (2009). Little of his huge oeuvre is available on DVD. The works that are, however, bear witness to Ruiz's unique genius.Klimt 2006, Le Temps Retrouvé 1999 (official competition Cannes Film Festival), starring Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mazzarella - (watch trailer) CL- Producer
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Andrés Wood (1965, Chile). After studying economics at the University of Chile he left for New York, where he attended a film course. When he returned to Chile he made his first feature film 'Historias de fútbol' which was a box-office hit.La buena vida 2008, Machuca **** 2004 - Santiago CL- Producer
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Pablo Larraín was born in Santiago, Chile. He is a director, writer and producer, known for Spencer (2021), Jackie (2016), El Club (2015), NO (2012), among others. Together with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín, they founded Fabula in 2004, one of the most prolific production companies in Latin America.- Director
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Born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is one of the leading figures (along with Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood and a few others) of the post-dictatorship Chilean cinema. After graduating from the "Escuela de Cine de Chile" in Santiago, Lelio started by making shorts (he made five from 1995 to 2003, as well as a documentary). From 2005 on, he directed four remarkable feature films, the first three very dark, the fourth one somewhat lighter, which all garnered awards in the festival circuit. The Sacred Family (2005) is kind of Chilean version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (1968). It was followed by Navidad (2009), a drama of uncommon intensity focusing on three teenagers alienated from their families and The Year of the Tiger (2011), recounting the escape of an inmate during Chile's 2010 earthquake. Coming after this taught triptych, Gloria (2013) surprises by its peaceful tone. The amorous adventures of Gloria, a sixty-year-old office worker in Santiago, although not without tensions and bitterness, are less upsetting than what Lelio had filmed before. But whether dark or rosy, Lelio's cinema explores the Chilean society of today with the same acuteness.La sagrada familia 2005 (A deeper truth that lie beneath the facades of convention) CL- Director
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Miguel Arteta was born in 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a director and producer, known for Beatriz at Dinner (2017), Succession (2018) and Enlightened (2011). He is married to Justine Arteta.- Director
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Manoel de Oliveira was born on 11 December 1908 in Oporto, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for The Cannibals (1988), I'm Going Home (2001) and Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007). He was married to Maria Isabel Brandão de Meneses de Almeida Carvalhais. He died on 2 April 2015 in Oporto, Portugal.Voyage au debut du monde 1997 - Oporto PR- Director
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Ruy Guerra left his studies in Portugal for to go to the School of Cinema in Paris. After having worked as assistant for various French directors he moved to Brasil and participated with his first two films in the birth of the "Cinema Novo": "Os Cafajestes (1962)" and "Os Fuzis (1964)" which won some international prizes. After an intermediate time in France where he made "Sweet Hunters (1969)" he returned to Brazil and went on filming there.Estorvo 2000 b. Mozambique, b. PT, l. BR- Writer
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Mauro Lima was born in 1967 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a writer and director, known for Meu Nome Não é Johnny (2008), Kings & Rats (2012) and Tim Maia (2014).My name is not Johnny BR (Brazil 3)- Director
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Heitor Dhalia was born on 18 January 1970 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a director and producer, known for O Cheiro do Ralo (2006), Nina (2004) and Bald Mountain (2013).- Director
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Fernando Meirelles was born in a middle class family in São Paulo City, Brazil.
He studied architecture at the university of São Paulo. At the same time he developed an interest in filmmaking. With a group of friends he started producing experimental videos and video art. They won a huge number of awards in Brazilian video festivals. After that, the group formed a small independent company called Olhar Eletrônico.
After working in independent television during nine years, in the eighties, Meirelles gravitated towards publicity and commercials. He also became the director of a very popular 180 episodes of a children's television show called Ra Tim Bum.
In the early 90s, together with Paulo Morelli and Andrea Barata Ribeiro, he opened the O2 Filmes production company which became the biggest production company in Brasil working from development until distribution, including complete post-production facilities.
His first feature,in 1998, was the family film "Menino Maluquinho 2: A Aventura". His next feature, "Domésticas" (2001), exposed the invisible world of five Brazilian maids in São Paulo and their secret dreams and desires.
In 1997 he read the Brazilian best-seller "Cidade de Deus/City of God", written by Paulo Lins, and decided to turn it into a movie despite an the intimidating story that involves more than 350 characters. Once the the screenplay, written by Bráulio Mantovani, was ready, Meirelles gathered a crew mixed with professional technicians and inexperienced actors chosen between the youngsters living in the favelas surrounding Rio de Janeiro.
The film was a huge success in Brazil and began to attract attention around the world, after it screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. "Cidade de Deus/City of God" (2003) has won nore than 50 awards from film festivals and societies all over the world, as well as four 2004 Oscar nominations, including a Best Director for Fernando Meirelles.
Since 2002 , Meirelles has split his time between international feature and TV series in Brazil. The Constant Gardner (2005,) had four Academy nominations plus four Golden Globes. Blindness (2008) opened Cannes. 360 (2011) opened the LFF. In the same period he directed several series for TV Globo and HBO in Brazil.
In addition to cinema, Meirelles directed Bizet's opera , Pearl Fishers, and was one of the directors of the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2019 Meirelles finished The Two Popes, for Netflix, and start filming a scientific documentary on the soil.
Apart from cinema, Meirelles is also a farmer. He plants sugar cane, coffee, palm heart, avocado, and mahogany. He is developing ways to produce organically n large scale. Agroforest is his bet.
In the next few years, his plan is to be involved in projects related to the environmental crisis and climate emergency. Meirelles is not optimistic about the future of our species and, in a shorter period, neither in the future of his grandchildren, which is very sad. --Blindness 2008, The Constant Gardener 2005, City of God 2002, Domésticas 2001 - Sao Paulo BR (Language Portugal)- Producer
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Rodrigo García was born on 24 August 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a producer and writer, known for Nine Lives (2005), Mother and Child (2009) and In Treatment (2008).Nine Lives 2005, Blue 2012 Bogota CO (Colombia 3)- Casting Department
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Catalina Arroyave Restrepo is known for Days of the Whale (2019), Los nadie (2016) and El árbol rojo (2021).Days of the whale 2019 CO- Producer
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Jhonny Hendrix was born in 1975 in Quibdó, Chocó, Colombia. He is a producer and director, known for Candelaria (2017), Choco (2012) and Saudó, laberinto de almas (2016).Candelaria ** (Love is a dance to the rhythm of your heart) 2017, Chocó 2012 Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza (full name) CO- Director
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Federico Veiroj was born in 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a director and producer, known for Belmonte (2018), Acne (2008) and A Useful Life (2010).La vida util 2018 Montevideo UY- Director
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José Quintero was born on 15 October 1924 in Panama City, Panama. He was a director and actor, known for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975) and Play of the Week (1959). He died on 26 February 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone *** 1961 b. Panama City, PA, l. US- Writer
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Juan Pablo Rebella was born on 1 January 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a writer and director, known for Whisky (2004), 25 Watts (2001) and Víctor y los elegidos (1996). He died on 5 July 2006 in Montevideo, Uruguay.Whisky 2004- Director
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Cuba's greatest and best-known director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea fell in love with cinema at an early age, began as a documentarian much influenced by Italian neorealism and came into his own as an artist during Fidel Castro's regime. Over the years he has evinced a fondness for both historical and contemporary fables, invariably politically pointed and satirical, their flights into absurdity showing the influence of Luis Buñuel. An ardent supporter of the revolution that rid the country of the despotic Fulgencio Batista and brought Castro to power, Alea has painted a more complex portrait of Cuba in his cinema than the rest of the world has generally been willing to conceive. The documentary impulse has remained, yet it is used to constantly scrutinize contemporary Cuba. Indeed, Alea has made some gutsy critiques of the socioeconomic and political realities of his land, as he ponders the persistence of a petty-bourgeois mentality in a society supposedly dedicated to the plight of the working poor.
Born to a fairly well-off family, Alea was sent to college in Havana to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lawyer. At about the same time he entered school, though, he acquired an 8mm camera and made two short films, El faquir (1947) and La caperucita roja (1947). Several years later he collaborated with fellow student (and future film great) Néstor Almendros on a short adaptation of a Franz Kafka story they named Una confusión cotidiana (1950). Upon graduation, Alea journeyed to Italy to study film directing for two years during the crest of neorealism at the famed Centro Sperimentale de Cinematografia. He returned to Cuba in 1953 and joined the radical "Nuestro Tiempo" cultural society, becoming active in the film section, working as a publicist and aligning himself with Castro's fight against the Batista regime. In 1955 Alea co-directed, with fellow society member 'Julio Garcia Espinosa', the 16mm short El mégano (1955), a semi-documentary about exploited workers, acted by nonprofessionals from the locales in which it was shot. The film was seized by Batista's secret police because of its political content.
Soon after the Cuban revolution in 1959, Alea co-founded (with Santiago Álvarez) the national revolutionary film institute ICAIC ("Instituto del Arte y Industria Cinematografica"). He promptly made a documentary, Esta tierra nuestra (1959), full of hope for the new government's plan to help the poor through agrarian reform, and has remained a pillar of the organization ever since. Alea's diverse creative personality has led him to experiment with a broad range of styles and themes. His first feature, Stories of the Revolution (1960), employs a neorealist style to present three dramatic sketches depicting the armed insurrection against Batista. Alea's relatively straightforward approach to film style, however, would change, altered not only through his appropriation of Hollywood and art cinema stylistics but also by his increasingly personal attempts at self-expression. A Cuban Fight Against Demons (1972), the film on which he first worked with regular cinematographer Mario García Joya, comes across as the prelude to a period Alea has described as full of personal and artistic instability as much as it does an aggressive allegorical portrait of church and state corruption. The director's later Cartas del parque (1988) is more of a twilight work, exploring the romantic period piece as a scribe meets a diverse cross-section of society via his talents at letter writing.
The finest of Alea's historical films, The Last Supper (1976), continued to highlight his versatility, drawing on Afro-Cuban musical motifs and the literary style of magic realism to recreate an 18th-century slave revolt. Alea has also made several satiric comedies that explore the legacy of bourgeois society in post-revolutionary Cuba. The madcap adventure The Twelve Chairs (1962), a tale also told by Russian filmmakers and by Mel Brooks, satirizes greed and bureaucracy as a lingering post-revolutionary bourgeois, his roguish manservant and a corrupt priest hunt for a chair concealing priceless diamonds. The Hollywoodian black comedy Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) cites not only Buñuel but also Mack Sennett and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as it criticizes, at an early point in the Castro regime, the administrative muck of the political system (Alea reused the gallows humor of the bureaucracy connected with burying a corpse for his road picture Guantanamera (1995), which began to appear at festivals in 1995 and 1996). In Los sobrevivientes (1979) an aristocratic family devolves from civilization to savagery; using a metaphor found in many films from poor countries, the family resorts to cannibalism in trying to remain isolated from the Revolution. The stresses and strains of a revolutionary society were explored in several dramatic works set in contemporary Cuba, among them Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) and Hasta cierto punto (1983). "Memories", Alea's masterpiece and arguably the best-known Cuban film ever made, brilliantly blends documentary and drama to create an extremely witty yet sensitive portrait of a restless, oversexed, politically uncommitted intellectual as he meanders through the early days of the Revolution. The latter film is, in some ways, a continuation of the former, as documentary filmmakers attempt to examine lingering machismo among dockworkers, eventually discovering that the Revolution's goals for changes in consciousness have succeeded only "up to a certain point."
Alea returned yet again to the nexus between the sexual and the political with the best-known Cuban film of the 1990s, Strawberry & Chocolate (1993). The story of the unusual friendship that develops between a naive believer in Castro's contemporary version of communism and a more experienced, gay critic of the regime was widely praised and just as widely attacked. Some found it atypically gentle for Alea and read its gay lead as a cover-up of Castro's horrifying treatment of homosexuals, while others thought it needlessly provocative in its characterizations; such divergent responses only testify to the complexity typical of Alea's tapestries. In 1994, "Strawberry and Chocolate" became the first Cuban film to receive an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film. Alea has written or co-scripted all his features and, in accordance with ICAIC's collective approach to filmmaking, has served as advisor on two of the institute's most stylistically innovative films: El otro Francisco (1974), directed by Sergio Giral, and One Way or Another (1977), directed by Sara Gomez.
Alea has been less active in filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s, and Juan Carlos Tabío has co-directed several of the aging master's recent films. He has, though, written a book of film theory, "Dialectica del espectador (1982)", and continued to inspire a new generation of sophisticated and politically committed artists.Fresa y chocolate 1993 CU (Cuba 2)- Director
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Juan Carlos Tabío was born on 3 September 1943 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for Guantanamera (1995), El cuerno de la abundancia (2008) and Strawberry & Chocolate (1993). He died on 18 January 2021 in Havana, Cuba.7 days in Havana (segment Dulce Amargo) 2012, CU- Director
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Pedro Costa was born on 30 December 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Horse Money (2014), Vitalina Varela (2019) and Colossal Youth (2006).- Director
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Federico Cecchetti was born in 1982 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and writer, known for Mara'akame's Dream (2016), Nuestro Viaje a la India (2022) and Jíkuri.- Eduardo Flores is known for ¿Con Quién Te Vas? (1996).
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Beristain was born in México City, the son of actor Luis Beristain. His interest in filmmaking began with his collaboration in the Mexico's indie film scene. He studied Economy and Sociology and formed part of the first prom of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica de México.
After filming some documentaries, founded a small production company before moving to Europe to continue his film education in the Britain's National Film and TV School.
Gabriel's first feature film as a Cinematographer was the Colombian horror film Carne de tu carne (Bloody Flesh), for which he won the Best Cinematography Award at the Bogotá Film Fest in 1983. Beristain's work in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986) was awarded with a Special Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1991, after filming the K2 movie in the Himalayas, Gabriel moved to L.A., California, and worked in the cult movies Blood In, Blood Out and Dolores Claiborne. In the Unites States had worked in more than 70 productions, such as the latest Black Widow (Marvel Studios), Harold and the Purple Crayon (Sony Pictures) and he is currently filming The Bee Keeper, starred by Jason Statham and directed by David Ayer.
He worked with renown filmmakers such as David Mamet, Derek Jarman, Roland Joffe, Guillermo del Toro, Antoine Fuqua and David Ayer, just to list some of many of them.
Beside of cinema Gabriel had worked also in TV commercials, music videos (as the famous Aerosmith's trilogy: "Crazy", "Crying" and "Amazing") and TV series such as Hawaii Five-0, Exit Strategy, Magic City and McGyver.
Further to that, a special mention to Gabriel's work with the Marvel Studios productions, where he had been one of the regular Directors of Photography, having worked in renowned films and series such as Blade II, Blade Trinity, the Iron Man's trilogy, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World, Hawkeye, Agent Carter, and Black Widow, among others.
As a Director he started filming some episodes of American TV Series such as Hawaii Five-0 and McGyver, the short film The Caddy, starred by Ron Perlman, and the documentary E.L.I., currently in post-production.
With a huge acknowledge of multiple areas in the industry, Gabriel had worked as an Executive Producer in Havana Kyrie, Sergio and Sergei, and the new projects in development with the film production company Factum Films, co-founded and co-directed among his partners: the actress and producer Mariela Garriga, and the renowned Italian entrepreneur Marco Artesani.
Gabriel still lives in Los Angeles, California, is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), British Society of Cinematographers (BSC), Mexican Society of Cinematographers (AMC) and the Directors Guild of America (DGA). He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).- Cinematographer
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Roberto Chile is known for Ghost Town to Havana (2015), Cuando pienso en el Che (1987) and Soy Tata Nganga (2012).- Cinematographer
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Graduated with a distinction in Cinematography from the London Film School in 1995, Eduardo has been active in the art and craft of Cinematography ever since and in the endless search of meaning trough the vital yet beautiful mix of light, shadow and color. An AMC (Mexican Society of Cinematographers) and SOC (LA based Society of Camera Operators) active member, he lives in Mexico City with his wife and two kids and is represented by the LA based talent agency THE MIRISCH AGENCY.- Director
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Jonathan Jakubowicz, winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film "Resistance", is Venezuela's most celebrated filmmaker and writer. His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards and was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" in 2005. Jakubowicz has helped new talents break into international stardom. Among those who credit him for giving them their first high profile role are Ana de Armas, Edgar Ramirez, Jurnee Smollet, Matthias Schweighoefer and Bella Ramsey. Jakubowicz is Jewish of Polish descent.
Secuestro Express became the nation's biggest box office hit of all time, which enraged then-Pres. Hugo Chavez, whose government opened two trials against Jakubowicz, who was forced to leave Venezuela.
His latest film, Resistance, stars Academy Award-nominated actors Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy and Édgar Ramírez. The film tells the story of how a group of Boys and Girls Scouts created a network that ended up saving ten thousand orphans during World War II. One of them went on to become the greatest mime of all time, Marcel Marceau. Warner Bros Germany produced the film together with Epicentral Studios, which is owned by Jakubowicz and his wife and producing partner Claudine Jakubowicz. It was released in the United States on March 27, 2020, by IFC Films during the Coronavirus epidemic, and it became the number one theatrical movie in America for two weeks in a row. Most multiplexes were closed, and only a few independent and Drive-in theaters remained opened, which gave Resistance the most unusual top box office spot of all time. The Film went on to win the German Film Peace Prize 2020, it Premiered at in the official selection of the Shanghai Film Festival, The Festival du Cinema Americain in Deauville, and The Munich Film Festival, among others.
Jakubowicz second film, Hands of Stone (2016), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (played by Édgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (played by Robert De Niro). Hands of Stone premiered in the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and was warmly received with a 15 minutes standing ovation. It's the first Latin movie to have a simultaneous wide release in all of Latin America.
Hands of Stone also landed Jakubowicz in political controversy when it was invited and then pulled from the official selection of the Havana Film Festival after Jakubowicz made comments denouncing censorship for Cuban filmmakers in the Island.
In November 2016 Jakubowicz published his first novel Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard and it immediately became a best seller in the Spanish Language market. In February 2017, it became the number one Amazon bestseller for all foreign language fiction. In Venezuela the book sparked unprecedented success, not only in the record breaking sales but also in the amount of public gatherings to read it. One community of fifty thousand people that define themselves as "resistance to the Maduro dictatorship (Resistencia Venezuela hasta los tuétanos)", read the book aloud every night on the encrypted frequency of the app Zello. The book is on it's way to become the biggest bestseller of all time for a Venezuelan author. And it is being adapted to the stage by legendary playwright Moisés Kaufman, whom US Pres. Barack Obama awarded the Medal for the Arts in 2016.Resistance 2020 VE- Director
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Madrid, 1979. After a few cinema summers in Valladolid, he left Law to study Camera and Photography. In 2001 he got the help of Aki Kaurismäki and Jose Luis Cuerda to shoot his first short: "Las Huellas". He founded Kinoskopik Film Produktion in 2007 and shooted the fiction films: "Ori" (2009) and "Chaika" (2012); The documentaries: "Days of El Abanico" (2007) and "A God in each Lentil" (2018); and the short films "Khorosho" (2010) and "Kafenio Kastello" (2018). "Window to the Sea" (2020), a co-production with Greece starring Emma Suarez, is his latest feature.Una Ventana al mar 2019- Writer
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Jorge Semprún was born on 10 December 1923 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and actor, known for Z (1969), The Sidewalks of Saturn (1986) and The War Is Over (1966). He was married to Collette Leloup and Loleh Bellon. He died on 7 June 2011 in Paris, France.- Actress
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Manuela Martelli was born on 16 April 1983 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and writer, known for Machuca (2004), Chile '76 (2022) and Il Futuro (2013).- Director
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Dani de la Orden is known for Barcelona Christmas Night (2015), Barcelona Summer Night (2013) and Luciano (2011).- Writer
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Manuela Martelli was born on 16 April 1983 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and writer, known for Machuca (2004), Chile '76 (2022) and Il Futuro (2013).Chile '76 2022- Director
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Matías Bize was born on 9 August 1979 in Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for The Memory of Water (2015), About Crying (2006) and The Life of Fish (2010). He has been married to Constanza Varela since 25 August 2022.- Director
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Hans Petter Moland was born on 17 October 1955 in Oslo, Norway. He is a director and writer, known for In Order of Disappearance (2014), Aberdeen (2000) and Out Stealing Horses (2019). He is married to Maria Sødahl. They have three children. He was previously married to Elizabeth Pacini.