Carlos Olguin-Trelawny
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Carlos Olguin-Trelawny (born on December 27, 1944 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and digital artist.
He started studying filmmaking at the ProDeo University in Rome, with professors such as Jean-Luc Godard, who let him work as second-assistant director to Academy Winner Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk for the 1970 film Waterloo. When he moved to New York, he studied screenwriting with Paul Schrader and acting with William Hickey.
In 1974 he took two sabbatical years and journeyed to the Orient. He chronicled his life-changing experience in a book called "Mundos sin campanarios" ("Worlds without belltowers").
He returned to Argentina where he wrote scripts for television and worked as an assistant director in films. His opera prima, the 1988 film "A Dos Aguas," won a Special Mention at the prestigious Locarno International Film Festival.
In 1991, Olguin-Trelawny moved to Los Angeles. There, he studied screenwriting at UCLA, directed shorts and documentaries, wrote for Telemundo/NBC and several screenplays and has started to experiment with digital art.
In April 2007 he moved back to his home town Buenos Aires to finish the screenplay "El bobo" which he will be directing in 2008 in Argentina.
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