Biografía
He was born in Argentina in 1958.
He graduated in the Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografía de Cinecitá, Rome, Italy.
He received 15 international awards with his first short film “Testigos en Cadena”.
His first full-length film “La Sonámbula”, written together with Ricardo Piglia y Fabián Bielinsky, was awarded in La Habana, Toronto, Toulouse, Nantes, Chorea, and also won the Cóndor de Plata de la Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina.
His last film “Aballay, el Hombre sin Miedo”, received 11 Cóndor de Plata awards and was selected by Argentina for the Oscar award as the best foreign film.
He was a professor in the Social Communications degree of the University of Buenos Aires and of the la Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica.
He directed for Argentinian TV: “Bajamar, la Costa de Silencio”, “Poliladron”, “Zona de Riesgo”, and “Cosecharás tu Siembra” with which he won the Konex award as best TV director during the 90s.
He directed the documentaries: “El Ángel sin Techo”, “Homenaje a los Pioneros de Villa Gesell”, “Reflexiones de una Vaca”, “Angelelli, la Palabra Viva”, and the short films: “Esercizio per Machina da Presa su Carello Continuo”, “Instruzioni per John Howell” “Regimiento 7 Regresa a Casa”; and the audiovisual works: “Balada para un Kaiser Carabela” with Luis Alberto Spinetta, and “Ciudad de Pobres Corazones” with Fito Paez; which has since become a cult film.
In 2005 he released the full-length film “Adiós Querida Luna” and he received awards in the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del
Plata and in the Festival de Cine Fantástico de
Estepona, Spain.
In 2013 and 2014 he was Artistic Director at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.
In 2015 he received the award “Italia Nel Mondo” for his distinguished career, awarded by the Italian government, and he directed together with Ana Piterbarg the series “Los 7 Locos y Los Lanzallamas” by Roberto Arlt, adapted for television by Ricardo Piglia.
This series was a success according to the audience and the reviews, it received 8 Martin Fierro nominations and won Best Fiction, Best Production and Best Direction in the Nuevas Miradas awards in tv, 2016.
He is currently working in his new movie “La Boya”.