Marcelo Piñeyro
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Marcelo Piñeyro (born March 5, 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an award-winning Argentine film director, script writer, and producer.
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[edit] Biography
Piñeyro studied cinematography at La Plata University's School of Fine Arts. In 1980, he and his associate Luis Puenzo founded Cinemania, a leading advertisement production company in Latin America.
In 1984, Piñeyro first came to international fame as Executive Producer of La historia oficial [The Official Story] (directed by Luis Puenzo). In 1985, the film became the first--and as of now only--Latin American movie to win an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1992, Piñeyro premiered as a director with Tango feroz [Tanguito, Wild Tango]. In Argentina, the film set attendance records and initiated a debate about the country's past. Screened in international film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival in 1993, the film won several awards including the Premio del Jurado Joven en el Festival de San Sebastián (1993).
Caballos Salvajes [Wild Horses], Piñeyro's second film, became the second highest attended film in Argentina in 1995. It received a number of awards, among others the Jury's Special Mention at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Besides, the film was screened at several renowned international film festivals from the Mostra Internazionale del Film Venecia to the New Directors/New Films series (1996) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Piñeyro's next film, Cenizas del paraíso [Ashes of Paradise], was produced by Buena Vista International and became Argentina's highest grossing film in 1997. It won a number of international awards, among them the Spanish Goya Award for Best Foreign Film and was selected to present Argentina for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. In addition, the film was screened at a number of international film festivals, ranging from the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián to the Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2000, Plata quemada [Burnt Money] gained international recognition and reached a considerable audience world-wide. In Uruguay, where a large part of the plot takes place, Plata quemada became even the most viewed film of the year. Screened at international film festivals like Venice, Biarritz, Toronto, and Rio de Janeiro, it also won a number of awards and award nominations.
In 2001, Piñeyro contributed the short film El Dorado to Argentina Vivo 2001, a film consisting of short films by several Argentine directors.
Kamchatka (2002) continued Piñeyro's series of cinematographic successes. It was shown at film festivals from Berlin to Bahia (Brazil) and from Miami to Sydney, and it was selected to represent Argentina for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
Piñeyro's most recent movie, El método [The Method, The Grönholm Method], premiered in 2005 and was again shown at several international film festivals including the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It won six Goya Awards (2006) including one for Piñeyro for the best adapted script.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Director and writer
- El Método [The Method/ The Grönholm Method] (2005)
- Kamchatka (2002) (solely director)
- Historias de Argentina en vivo (2001) (as one of several directors)
- Plata quemada [Burning Money, Burnt Money (USA and Canada), Vies brûlées (France)] (2000)
- Cenizas del paraíso [Paradise Ashes, (USA) Ashes from Paradise] (1997)
- Caballos salvajes [Wild Horses] (1995)
- Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito [Tanguito, (USA) Wild Tango] (1993)
[edit] Producer
- La historia oficial [The Official History, The Official Version, (USA) The Official Story] (1985)
