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Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 27, 2017) was an Argentine film maker and theorist. He was considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema . Biography. Birri was born in Santa Fe, Argentina.
Fernando Birri. Director: Los inundados. Birri is known as the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema". He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Roma, and after graduating returned to the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, where he founded the first film school specialized in documentary in Latin America.
- Director, Actor, Writer
- March 13, 1925
- Fernando Birri
- December 27, 2017
Argentine film director and theoretician Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 27, 2017), whom Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient Gabriel García Márquez calls Gran papá del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, was one of the founders of the new Latin American film movement, often described as a form of revolutionary or Third Cinema.
Fernando Birri: A constructor of utopias. The Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri, 81, talks about the transition from the present films to a new 'imagery' broader support of advanced technologies
Dec 27, 2017 · A tribute to the Argentine filmmaker and theorist who died in 2017 at 92. He was a pioneer of Latin American documentary cinema and a founder of film schools in Argentina and Cuba.
Fernando Birri. Director: Los inundados. Birri is known as the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema". He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Roma, and after graduating returned to the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, where he founded the first film school specialized in documentary in Latin America.
Such is the case with Fernando Birri (1925-2017), who had been making films for 65+ years prior to his passing away last December, and is frequently cited as “the father of the New Latin American Cinema.”
