Andrés di Tella
1994 Fellow–Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Televisión y yo: Notas en una libreta (Television and Me: Notes in a Notebook)
A film-essay about television and memory that intertwines the filmmakerÂ’s first recollections of television and the earliest moments of television in Argentina. Through the stories of two families, we begin to understand the lost dream of a nation.
Distribution Info:
Cine Ojo c/o Andres Di Tella
Lavalle 1619 3º E
Buenos Aires 1047 Argentina
Tel: 54 11 43738208
E-mail: cineojo@interlink.com.ar
Selected Works
Film
Fotografías (2007)
La T.V. y yo (2002)
Historias de Argentina en vivo (2001)
Montoneros, una historia (1998)
Prohibido (1997)
!El porno! (Porn!) (1995)
Montoneros, una historia (Montoneros, A History) (1993)
Guía del inmigrante (Guide for the Immigrant) (1993, co-director)
33 millones de financistas (Thirty-three Million Finance Experts) (1991, co-director)
Reconstruyen crimen de la modelo (Model Crime Reconstructed) (1990, co-director)
Desaparición forzada de personas (Forced Disappearance of People) (1989)
Accomplishments
A filmmaker and screenwriter, Andrés di Tella is co-author of the book El guión cinematográfico (Screenwriting) and has written film reviews for several Argentine newspapers. He received the prize for best adapted screenplay and best comedy script for Las puertitas del señor López (The Little Doors of Mr. López). He was the founder of the Buenos Aires International Film Festival, and served as its director in 1999 and 2000.
Education
Modern Languages and Literature, Oxford University, England
News
April, May, June 2008
Andrés di Tella’s Fotografías was shown in the 36th Huesca Film Festival, held in Spain in June. In this personal essay, based on a box of photographs, di Tella traces the imprints of his mother’s history. (Argentina)
January, February, March 2008
Andrés Di Tella’s documentaries were showcased in a retrospective held by The Filmoteca de Catalunya, in Barcelona, in January. The series was be accompanied by texts by and about the filmmaker in Archivos de la Filmoteca, Spain’s prestigious film publication. The screenings included the Spanish premiere of his latest film Fotografías, a personal essay based on a box of photographs, which di Tella uses to trace the imprints of his mother’s history. (Argentina)
July, August, September 2007
Andrés di Tella’s Fotografías screened in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Latinbeat 2007 Festival. In this personal essay, based on a box of photographs, di Tella traces the imprints of his mother’s history. (Argentina)