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Sound Designer
The Castle
Sound Designer
The inheritance from her former boss is a poisoned chalice for Indigenous housekeeper Justina: a huge, derelict mansion in the back of beyond. Justina’s daughter Alexia would much prefer to return to Buenos Aires and work as a car mechanic.
Tótem
Dialogue Editor
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Matadero
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An American filmmaker arrives in the Argentinian pampa to film Matadero: a founding narrative of class struggle where a group of laborers slaughter their bosses like cattle. It is 1974, the violent persecution of the left has just begun in Argentina, and the young actors in the film are on the verge of taking a leap into full time clandestine militancy.
Te mentí
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Luminum
Sound Designer
Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld uses humour and affection to paint the poetic portrait of a community.
Lina from Lima
Supervising Sound Editor
It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.
Jesús López
Sound Designer
Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life.
Una casa lejos
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Bahía Blanca
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Mario, a university professor, uses his research on the writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada to escape from his past. Settled in Bahía Blanca, the new city seems to be the ideal place for him to forget, until a chance encounter with an old friend unleashes the worst of dangers.
out of frame
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Six professionals in the audiovisual field share their experiences through a visual and sound sensory journey
Le Temps Perdu
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Buenos Aires, Argentina. For eighteen years, a group of people have been meeting in a bar to read the same work over and over again: the seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time, by the French writer Marcel Proust.
La vida dormida
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Back in the ‘90s, the wife of a Menemist politician recorded her husband’s public and private life on video. In this rigid, patriarchal family’s present day, Agustina and her aunt Bibiana build a story based on mystique and disenchantment, with tensions and silences that oscillate between love and power.
Ciclos
Sound
"CICLOS follows Ignacio Semeñuk, a 15 year old cyclist, as he faces the severeness of his training, his path to adulthood and his love life."
Theatre of War
Sound Designer
Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.
Soldier
Sound Designer
A young man decides to join the army. He becomes the drummer in the military band, and his everyday life is now a combination of military training and music. What does the Argentine Army do these days, more than thirty years after the dictatorship? What does it mean to be a soldier in a country without wars?
La siesta del tigre
Sound
Along distant and desolate streams, five men start looking for the fossil of the largest feline that has ever inhabited these lands – the saber-toothed tiger –, holding onto the hope of saving themselves through the sale of the bones of the tiger.
The Black Frost
Foley Supervisor
Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.
Kryptonita
Dialogue Editor
Movie adaptation of Leonardo Oyola's novel, which tells the story of the legendary DC comics superhero, Superman, if he, instead of falling in Smallville from Krypton, would have landed in the heart of Isidro Casanova, in La Matanza, deep in the west side of Buenos Aires.
Incendio/Rescate
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Three firefighters try not to fall asleep while waiting for a fire to make them leave the barracks. "Incendio / Rescate" watches closely, in an almost dreamlike way, these characters who spend their time waiting for the opportunity to become heroes.
Yo y Maru 2012
Sound
“The possibility of writing letters must have brought to the world a terrible disturbance of souls. Because it is a relationship with ghosts - and not only with the ghost of the recipient, but also with his own. Who is allowed to allow people to have correspondence relationships! ”Letter from Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1920.
Brides - Godmothers - 15 years
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A documentary on the day to day work of a fabric shop located in Once, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, that caters to future brides, godmothers and quinceañeras. The shop is owned by the directors' father.
Sombra grande
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