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Country:

ARGENTINA

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Registered since:

01.04.2009

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City:

Rosario

Contact Person:

Mario Piazza

Contact Email

mariopiazza@rosariarte.com.ar

Description:

Born in the city of New York on September 23, 1956, he lives in Rosario since he was ten months of age. He was 21 when he completed his short film "Dream for a clerk" (1978), which was exhibited in the recitals of the group of Unreal rock. His movies "Gringo Daddy" (1983), "The School of Miss Olga" (1991) and " Cachilo, the poet of the walls" (1999/2000) had considerable diffusion and recognition in media and cultural festivals. His film "Mothers with wheels", produced with the supports of UNESCO, Rosario's municipality and the National Institute of Cinema and Audio-visual Arts of the Argentina, had its premiere in Rosario and in Buenos Aires, and has obtained the most important prize - the Prize of the Public - in the 3th Festival Assimm Vivemos, an international festival of movies on disability, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August, 2007. The film also received the principal prize of the Latin-American Competition of Santa Fe, 2008, and a Mention in the Sample The Sudestada, Paris, 2008, and the festivals CineSul, Rio de Janeiro, and of the Uruguay, Montevideo, both in 2007.