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Fernando Birri
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13 March 1925 - 27 December 2017
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Argentine director, actor and screenwriter Fernando Birri was born in Santa Fe on March 13, 1925. Like many figures in the film industry, he graduated from an educational institution on a profile, receiving a diploma from the Experimental Center for Cinematography in Rome. After graduation, Fernando Birri worked on the film The Roof (1955) as an assistant to Vittorio De Sica. In 1956 he returned to his native Santa Fe, where he opened his own Institute of Cinematography at the National University
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Argentine director, actor and screenwriter Fernando Birri was born in Santa Fe on March 13, 1925. Like many figures in the film industry, he graduated from an educational institution on a profile, receiving a diploma from the Experimental Center for Cinematography in Rome.
After graduation, Fernando Birri worked on the film The Roof (1955) as an assistant to Vittorio De Sica. In 1956 he returned to his native Santa Fe, where he opened his own Institute of Cinematography at the National University of the Coast. Fernando Birri’s independent creative career began with the shooting of short and animated films.
Birri’s career is characterized by long breaks in creativity, which were replaced by active periods of filming. In 1963-1982, he was in immigration and did not make films. And in 1982 he opened the Mobile Poetics Laboratory, which became a film school traveling through Italy, Spain and Latin America. For such achievements, Birri received recognition from the first director of the International School of Film and Television in Cuba and was named the father of the new Latin American cinema.
Over the years of filming and working on films, Fernando Birri released a dozen films that allowed the director to win the screenwriter in one person of world fame. Among them are
Flooded (1961), for which he received the Venice IFF Award for Best Film Debut and Golden Lion. No less popular was the film “A very old man with huge wings”, shot according to the script by García Marquez in 1988.
After leaving work on filming, Fernando Birri began teaching the basics of Latin American documentary and new cinema at Tufts University, printing a number of books of his own composition. /