Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 in an area of 201 square kilometers (78 sq mi). Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata.
The Uruguayan Football Association is the governing body of football in Uruguay. It was founded in 1900, as The Uruguayan Association Football League, and affiliated to FIFA in 1923. It is a founding member of CONMEBOL and is in charge of the national men's team and the national women's team, as well as the Uruguayan football league system.
No Te Va Gustar, also known by their initials NTVG, is an Uruguayan rock band formed in 1994 in Montevideo. The group consists of Emiliano Brancciari, Guzmán Silveira (bass), Diego Bartaburu (drums), Martín Gil (trumpet), Denis Ramos (trombone), Mauricio Ortiz, Pablo Coniberti (guitar) and Francisco Nasser (keyboards).
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library, a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films.
Herman Puig was the founder of the first Cinemateca de Cuba and pioneer of male nude photography. Born in Havana, Cuba, where he began his early work, his ascendance comes from Catalonia. He rose to fame in France.
A Useful Life is a 2010 Uruguayan drama film about the love of film, directed by Federico Veiroj and shot in black-and-white. The film was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist.
The Cinemateca Brasileira is the institution responsible for preserving Brazilian audiovisual production. In July 2021, it experienced a major fire.
Eduardo Darino is a Uruguayan film producer, director, animator, and cartoonist.
The Official Service of Diffusion, Representations and Entertainment is a national cultural organization in Uruguay, controlled by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Carlos María Domínguez is an Argentine writer and journalist who has lived in Montevideo since 1989.
The Association of European Cinematheques is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991. Its role is to safeguard the European film heritage and make these rich audiovisual records collected and preserved by the various film archives accessible to the public. ACE is a regional branch of FIAF Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film / International Federation of Film Archives. ACE members are non-profit institutions committed to the FIAF Code of Ethics.
Inés Bortagaray Sabarrós is a Uruguayan writer and screenwriter with a degree in communication studies.
Liliana García Sosa is an Uruguayan-Chilean actress with a distinguished film, theatre, and television career in Chile and Uruguay. She has been an honorary cultural associate of the Uruguayan embassy in Chile since the first government of Tabaré Vázquez.
Hilda López was a Uruguayan painter and sculptor. She was best known for her abstract, gestural paintings and drawings from the 1960s, as well as for her political activism following the 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état. López's work first came to public attention in the 1960s after exhibitions in Montevideo and the United States, and she soon became an influential name in Uruguay's Informalism movement. López represented Uruguay in the São Paulo Art Biennial, and her work is part of the collection of the National Museum of Visual Arts in Uruguay.
Romarina Massardi was an Italian-Uruguayan canto lírico singer, actress, and film director, responsible for the first South American lyric film, released in 1938.
Valentín Trujillo is an Uruguayan writer. He was born in Maldonado in 1979. He studied cinema at the Cinemateca Uruguaya and journalism at the Universidad Católica. In 2005, he started working as a journalist for El Observador newspaper in Montevideo. In 2007, he won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa Juan José Morosoli for his book of short stories Jaula de costillas. He contributed a story in an anthology titled Sobrenatural, published in 2012 by Estuario Editora. His second book of stories is titled Entre los jíbaros. He has also published a biography of the Uruguayan scholar Carlos Real de Azúa.
Sylvia Lago Carzolio is a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and literary critic. She has made a particular focus of women's issues, addressing various conflicts that women encounter in her work.
The Uruguay International Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place every year in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.
John Adams was a British architect, active in Uruguay at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
