Cristina Nigro

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Cristina Nigro

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The Last Matinee
Production Design
On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running starts being murdered by a crazed killer.
The Last Matinee
Art Direction
On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running starts being murdered by a crazed killer.
La chancha
Art Direction
Pablo and Miguel, from Las Varillas, see each other after many years in La Cumbre when they are both on vacation with their partners. Secrets will come to light when Pablo's wife discovers why Miguel's presence bothers her husband so much.
La vida después
Art Direction
A couple married for 25 years decides to split. Adapting to the new life will be very difficult.
7th Floor
Production Design
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián, a successful lawyer, leaves his ex-wife's condo, located on the seventh floor of an apartment building, to take his two children to school. While they run down the stairs, he uses the elevator. Once on the ground floor, Sebastián awaits the arrival of the children…
A Bullet for Che
Art Direction
Ethel is a 60-year-old psychoanalyst who chose to access documents declassified by the Uruguayan goverment to know the identity of the perpetrators of the death of her husband. His death occured on August 17th 1961 at a University ceremony where Che Guevara delivered one of his first speeches after the revolutionary triumph of the Cuban revolution. The bullet that killed a history teacher was considered a failed attack against Che Guevara planned by the CIA.
Felicitas
Art Direction
Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?
Don't Look Down
Art Direction
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
Whisky Romeo Zulú
Art Direction
Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious.
Asesinato a distancia
Production Design
Anni ribelli
Production Design
Buenos Aires, 1955. One of a family of Sicilian immigrants, the adolescent Laura is on the threshold of adulthood. Her father Francesco Lojacono, is a humble tailor whose relationship with his daughter is one of extreme conflict. As Laura becomes increasingly emancipated in Argentinian (and therefore American) fashion, her father feels personally betrayed. (IMDB)
Wake Up Love
Art Direction
Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in post-revolutionary Cuba.
Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going
Art Designer
A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
A Wall of Silence
Production Design
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.
The Dark Side of the Heart
Set Decoration
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
I, the Worst of All
Set Decoration
A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers the election of a new abbess, severe and ascetic. The virreina visits Sor Juana often and inspires her to write passionate poetry that the archbishop finds scandalous. The viceroy protects her. After he is replaced and returns to Spain with his wife, Sor Juana faces envy and retribution. A bishop betrays her, her confessor humbles her. Plague, a tribunal, and her confession as "the worst of all" end the great poet's life.
I Don't Owe 100 Times
Set Decoration
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.