Fernando Ezequiel "Pino" Solanas was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, score composer and politician. His films include; La hora de los hornos (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985), Sur (1988), El viaje (1992), La nube (1998) and Memoria del saqueo (2004), among many others. He was National Senator representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for six years, from 2013 to 2019.
Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad.
A Year Without Love is a 2005 Argentine drama film directed by Anahí Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title.
The cinema of Paraguay has historically been small. However, this has begun to change in recent years with films like El Toque del Oboe (1998); María Escobar (2002); O Amigo Dunor (2005), which competed for Best Movie in the Rotterdam International Film Festival; Hamaca Paraguaya (2006), which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, gaining critical acclaim both in Paraguay and abroad; 7 cajas (2012); Latas Vacías (2014); and Luna de Cigarras (2014).
Delia Amadora García Gerboles better known as Delia Garcés was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959 and acted on stage from 1936 to 1966. She won the Premios Sur Best Actress award three times from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, as well as the Argentine Film Critics Association's Silver Condor Award for Best Actress, the Premios Leopold Torre Nilsson, Premio Pablo Podestá, and the inaugural ACE Platinum Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo.
Laura Ana "Tita" Merello was an Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). In her six decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media. She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango. She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
Outside the Law is a 1937 Argentine thriller film directed and written by Manuel Romero. The film premiered on 12 May 1940 in the United States. The film starred José Gola, Luis Arata, Roberto Blanco, and Irma Córdoba
Francisco "Paco" Madrid was a Spanish (Catalan) journalist, writer and screenwriter.
Marcelo Mosenson is the founder and executive director of the film production company Nomade Films.
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.
Sebastiane Award is a prize delivered in September, since 2000, to a film or documentary screened during the San Sebastián International Film Festival that best reflects the values and reality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people.
Paula Reca is a film, theatre and television actress raised in Buenos Aires. She got her BFA in drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and her classical theatre training from RADA, London. Paula has won the ACE Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance in Theatre and the HUGO Theatre award for Best Leading Actress. In film Paula starred in "Tampoco Tan Grandes", which she produced and wrote with her brother Maximo. "Tampoco Tan Grandes" won Best Feature Film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2018 and screened at Shanghai International Film Festival, Malaga International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Chicago Latin Film Festival. Paula also starred in "Belgrano" by Juan Campanella, Academy Award Winner Director for Best Foreign Film 2010; in "Veredas" by Fernando Cricenti which won the special mention from the Jury at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and screened at BAFICI 2017; and in Gaspar Scheuer's "Delfin" produced by Tarea Fina which screened at Cannes Ecrans Junior 2019. In theatre Paula played the GIRL in ONCE at Teatro Metropolitan Sura; the first Spanish adaptation of the successful Broadway musical and Academy Award-winning film. Paula played Sophie in "Mamma Mía!" directed by Broadway's associate director Robert Mcqueen and played Louisa in "The Sound of Music" directed by Jonathan Butterell with Lighting Design by Tony Award Winner Rick Fisher. Both musicals at Teatro Opera in Buenos Aires. Her TV credits playing leading roles include: "Casi Angeles", "Aliados", "German, Ultimas Vinetas" and "Aliados Season 2". Both "Casi Angeles" and "Aliados" aired in over 20 countries around the world. Paula was the face of two Argentine fashion campaigns. In 2014 of BOLIVIA and in 2015 of AMORES TRASH COUTURE.
Absent is a 2011 Spanish-language drama film directed by Argentine director Marco Berger. The film tackles the notion of sexual abuse of students, but director Marco Berger flips the dynamic. In this film, a young man wants to lure his teacher into a sexual relationship, rather than the other way round.
Latin American nations have been producing national LGBT+ cinema since at least the 1980s, though homosexual characters have been appearing in their films since at least 1923.:75 The collection of LGBT-themed films from 2000 onwards has been dubbed New Maricón Cinema by Vinodh Venkatesh; the term both includes Latine culture and identity and does not exclude non-queer LGBT+ films like Azul y no tan rosa.:6-7 Latin American cinema is largely non-systemic, which is established as a reason for its wide variety of LGBT-themed films.:142
Hawaii is a 2013 Spanish language gay romantic drama film by Argentine director Marco Berger. Set in rural Argentina, it tells the story of two young men from different social backgrounds coming to terms with their growing attraction for each other.
Mateo Chiarino is a Uruguayan actor, writer, and director of film, stage, and television. He is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Aurelia Del Carmen Guarini is an Argentine anthropologist, teacher, film director, and film producer specializing in anthropological documentary films. She teaches visual anthropology and directs documentaries in Argentina and in Cuba. She serves on the documentary projects' evaluation committee at the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts and participates in Cine Ojo projects.
Argentina has a strong body of national LGBT cinema. It is also home to the international LGBT film festival Libercine. Some LGBT films from the country have been said to "have created an impact thanks to positive critical reception, and their queer protagonists", with the nation itself in recent years said to have "taken the lead in Latin America in producing provocative films that shed the cliches of so much commercial gay filmmaking in the United States". Deborah Shaw theorises that new forms of co-production and different avenues of funding may be promoting more queer film in Argentina.
Cine Cosmos is a restored cinema on Avenida Corrientes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Originally inaugurated as Cine Cataluña in 1929, it became known under its current name in the 1960s for its showings of alternative Soviet cinema. Since 2010 it has been owned and operated by the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina's largest university.
Rafael Filippelli was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
