All articles by Diego Batlle – Page 3

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    Sergio Renan finishing Argentina shoot for new feature

    2006-11-21T17:06:00Z

    Veteran Argentinianfilmmaker Sergio Renan is finishing Three of Hearts (Tresde Corazones), his first feature in five years.The 73-year-old, award-winningdirector and actor is in the last week of shooting of the $840,000 productionstarring local stars Monica Ayos, Fabian Vena and Luis Luque.Based on renowned writerJuan Jose Saer's short story ElTaximetrista, the ...

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    Buenos Aires boasts record production levels

    2006-11-14T12:00:00Z

    Buenos Aires film industry is enjoying record growth and increasing profits. According to official figures recently released by the city's Production Ministry, Buenos Aires receives more than $65m from shootings in the area every year and the film industry employs 19,000 people in the city. A total of 3,498 films ...

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    Argentinian director Eduardo Mignogna dies aged 66

    2006-10-09T11:13:00Z

    AcclaimedArgentinian director and writer Eduardo Mignogna died October 8 of cancer in BuenosAires. He was 66.Mignogna shoteight multi-awarded feature films and was also a published writer and arenowned TV director. Autumn Sun (Sol de Otono), TheEscape (La Fuga), Cleopatra, The Lighthouse (El Faro), Flop and mostrecently The Wind (El Viento) ...

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    Argentinian director Eduardo Mignogna dies at 66

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    AcclaimedArgentinian director and writer Eduardo Mignogna died today of cancer in BuenosAires. He was 66.Mignognashot eight multi-awarded feature films and was also a published writer and arenowned TV director. His filmssuch as Sol de Oto-o (Autumn Sun), La Fuga(The Escape), Cleopatra, El Faro (The Lighthouse), Flop and most recently El ...

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    Martel's third film Headless Woman to shoot next March

    2006-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Acclaimed Argentiniandirector Lucrecia Martel is set to shoot her third film La Mujer Sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) next March.Lita Stantic Produccioneswill finance the $2m film in co-production with Pedro and Agustin Almodovar'sEl Deseo in Spain and the support of the National Film Institute (Argentina).Both Stantic and El Deseo were ...

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    Argentina goes for Family Law as Oscar hopeful

    2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

    The Argentinian Academy of Film Arts and Science hasselected Daniel Burman's fifth feature Family Law as its submission for the foreign language filmcategory at next year's Academy Awards.The E1.7 million Argentinian-French-Spanish-Italianco-production follows a justice department official (Daniel Hendler) who isforced to confront life-changing decisions when his father dies.Family Law wasselected ...

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    Babenco to start shooting The Past on Monday

    2006-07-12T00:00:00Z

    Argentinian-bornBrazil based director Hector Babenco will start shooting his long-awaited ninthfilm, The Past, on Monday inBuenos Aires. Based on thebest-selling 551-page novel by Alan Pauls, winner of the prestigious HerraldePrize, The Past centres on acouple who decide to split up after 12 years. While the man, Rimini, played byMexican star ...

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    Uruguayan film-maker Rebella commits suicide at 32

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Juan Pablo Rebella, one ofLatin America's most talented young screenwriters and directors, is reported tohave committed suicide yesterday. His body was found at his house inMontevideo, Uruguay. He was only 32.Rebella and his longtimecollaborator Pablo Stoll co-directed two shorts and two acclaimed features.They made their debut with 25 Watts,a $26,000 ...

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    Uruguayan film-maker Rebella commits suicide at 32

    2006-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Juan Pablo Rebella,one of Latin America's most talented young screenwriters and directors, isreported to have committed suicide yesterday. His body was found at his housein Montevideo, Uruguay. He was only 32.Rebella and hislongtime collaborator Pablo Stoll co-directed two shorts and two acclaimedfeatures. They made their debut with 25 Watts, a ...

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    Argentina enjoys big box office rise for first six months

    2006-07-05T04:00:00Z

    Nielsen EDI and Dis-Service reported a 16%year-on-year increase in admissions and 33.8% rise in box office takings forthe first half of 2006 in the Argentinian market.The period saw some 19.5 million admissions as opposedto 16.8 million for the first six months of 2005. However, audiences are still down by 2.8m ...

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    Fabian Bielinsky dies of heart attack at the age of 47

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Argentinian screenwriter anddirector Fabian Bielinsky died yesterday in Brazil at 47 of a heart attack. Hewas in Sao Paulo to attend a casting session for a new commercial he was aboutto shoot.Only last Monday, Bielinskywas named best director of 2005 for his second feature The Aura by the Argentinian Film ...

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    Mexican documentary wins Buenos Aires top prize

    2006-04-23T19:00:00Z

    Mexican Juan Carlos Rulfo's documentary In the Pit (En elHoyo)won the prize for best film in the internationalcompetition at the eighth Buenos Aires International Festival of IndependentCinema (BAFICI), while German Valeska Grisebach's Longing took theSpecial Jury Award, Argentinian Lorena Munoz's painting documentary LosProximos Pasados (Next to be Gone) received the ...

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    Buenos Aires festival kicks off with Rosell's Sofabed

    2006-04-11T04:00:00Z

    The eighth Buenos AiresInternational Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tonightwith plans to show 342 features and 145 shorts from 49 countries.The city-financed BAFICI is Argentina's biggest film event in terms of numbers of screenings andcinema-goers (last year's attendance was 184,500), besting the nationallyfinanced Mar del Plata Festival, ...

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    Ice Age sequel breaks box-office record in Argentina

    2006-04-04T04:00:00Z

    Ice Age: The Meltdown scored the best ever opening in Argentina with 544,158 admissions from 155 screens in its first four-day weekend (March 30-April 2). The animated sequel beat the previous record set by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with 460,489 admissions from 115 ...

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    News From Afar takes best film prize at Mar del Plata

    2006-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Latin American filmsdominated the awards at the 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival, which closedyesterday with a record attendance of 150,000 spectators.Noticias Lejanas (News From Afar), Mexican Ricardo Benet's first feature film about a 17-year-old boy whohas grown up in a rural village and undertakes a journey of initiation to ...

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    Mar Del Plata attracts record numbers

    2006-03-17T04:00:00Z

    The 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival has attracted morethan 100.000 spectators in its first seven days, confirming its place as LatinAmerica's leading film event.The Argentinian festival, running until next Sunday, hasalso seen an unprecedentedly large number of international guests; Tim Robbins,Susan Sarandon, Michael Winterbottom, Abel Ferrara and Juliette Binoche ...

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    Gael Garcia Bernal to star in Hector Babenco film

    2006-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Gael GarciaBernal will star in the new Hector Babenco film, The Past (O Pasado),confirmed Oscar Kramer of Argentina's ShokFilms to Screen. Based on a novel by theArgentine writer Alan Pauls, The Past is about a couple who decide to separate after 12 years;while the man tries to leave his past ...

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    Argentinian New Wave looks beyond home for financing

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    During the 1990s, awave of young film-makers emerged in Argentina who gained comparison on thefestival circuit with similar movements in Iran, Hong Kong, Thailand, Finlandand South Korea.Now severaldirectors from the group known as New Argentine Cinema - such as LisandroAlonso (The Dead), Martin Rejtman (Silvia Prieto) and Lucrecia Martel (Holy ...

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    The Chronicles of Narnia is hit for Argentina

    2006-01-11T04:00:00Z

    TheChronicles of Narnia: TheLion, the Witch and the Wardrobe scored the best opening ever in Argentina with 460.489 admissions from 173 screensin its first four-day weekend (Jan 5-8). Thefantasy epic beat previous record set by The Matrix Reloaded with450.839 spectators from 115 theatres in May 2003, while Shrek2 holds the ...

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    Narnia breaks all records in Argentina

    2006-01-11T04:00:00Z

    TheChronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe scored the best opening ever in Argentina with 460.489 admissions from173 screens in its first four-day weekend (Jan 5-8). The fantasy epic beat previous record set by The Matrix Reloaded with 450.839spectators from 115 theatres in May 2003, while Shrek ...