Synopsis
In 1997 Fernando Birri returns to film in his country to talk about the validity of utopias and decide to record these moments. A first set of this documentary was hidden for 18 years in a fragile VHS. Today he returns to the light, to become a new film that updates the validity of the voice of this poet, master of many generations of Latin American cinema, who at 92 years, continues to try to catch his own utopias.
Director's bio
Director and Producer.
In 2001 she created and co-directs (since then) the International Documentary Film Festival and International Co-production Forum DocBUENOSAIRES, which has already carried out 12 editions. In 1986, together with Marcelo Céspedes, she founded Cine-Ojo, the pioneering documentary film producer in Argentina. She is also a visiting professor at the EICTV and other institutions as well as at the University of Buenos Aires and the Universidad del Cine (FUC).
Among her films we can mention: Hospital Borda, a call to reason (1986); The eternal night (1990); Jaime de Nevares, last trip (1995); Red Ink (1998); SONS, the soul in two (2002); The devil among the flowers (2005); Meykinof (2005), Gorri (2010), Tiles in Buenos Aires (2011), Streets of Memory (2012). As a producer, she has worked with numerous Argentine directors (AF Mouján, J.Colás, A.Di Tella, J.Goldenberg, F. González, C.Pauls, S, Wolf, among others). Konex Award 2001 and 2011. She teaches at the University of Buenos Aires, the Universidad del Cine-FUC, the San Antonio de los Baños School, among others.
