IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
CINEMA OF THE WORLD<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35 mm, Colour, 86 mins, Spanish<br />
Argentina<br />
Camera Obscura<br />
/ La Cámara Oscura<br />
In a Colony <strong>of</strong> Jewish immigrants in Entre Rios Province, Argentina, at the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />
19th Century, we discover the story <strong>of</strong> Gertrudis, a woman who in the eyes <strong>of</strong> her family<br />
was born an ugly baby. Gertrudis grows up into a not very pretty child and finally<br />
became, in the eyes <strong>of</strong> everyone around her, an insignificant, almost invisible woman.<br />
Ignored by all, Gertrudis does not let the fact interfere with her keen interest for those<br />
delicate, miniscule signs <strong>of</strong> beauty that surrounds us, and that we can only perceive if we<br />
stop to contemplate them. It is a film that reflects on the erratic laws <strong>of</strong> beauty,<br />
acceptance and rejection. What we see through our eyes - or perhaps what we miss, when<br />
we think we see.<br />
Director<br />
Maria Victoria Menis<br />
Screenplay<br />
Maria Victoria Menis & Alejandro Fernandez Murray<br />
Cinematography<br />
Marcelo Iaccarino<br />
Editor<br />
Alejandro Brodershon<br />
Music<br />
Marcelo Moguilevsky<br />
Cast<br />
Mirta Bogdasarian (Gertrudis), Patrick Dell´Isola (Jean<br />
Baptiste), Fernando Armani (León)<br />
Sound<br />
Martin Grignaschi<br />
Costumes<br />
Marcela Bazzano<br />
Production & Sales<br />
Todo Cine S.A.<br />
Pacheco de Melo<br />
2945 2º2 - 1425 - CABA<br />
Argentina<br />
T/F: +5411 4806 2905<br />
Maria Victoria Menis, born in Buenos Aires, is a graduate <strong>of</strong> the Centro Experimental<br />
al the National Institute <strong>of</strong> Cinematography (ENERC) Argentina. Director <strong>of</strong> several<br />
short films, she made her first feature film, The Patriotic Spirits, in 1989. It won the<br />
Cóndor de Plata Award for First Feature in 1989 and the Best First Feature Awards in the<br />
Santa Fe <strong>Festival</strong> and the Bariloche <strong>Festival</strong> in Argentina. The film was invited to the<br />
American <strong>Film</strong> Institute <strong>Festival</strong> and the Chicago <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. In 2001, she directed<br />
The News <strong>of</strong> the Day, starring Enrique Pinti and Carmen Maura, which was invited to<br />
festivals like those in <strong>of</strong> San Pablo (Brazil), Geneva (Switzerland) and Islantilla (Spain),<br />
as well as the Latino <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in Chicago, San Diego and Miami in the USA. In<br />
2004, she wrote and directed El Cielito, which participated in several film festivals and<br />
won a number <strong>of</strong> awards. Menis is a teacher at the University <strong>of</strong> Buenos Aires, ENERC<br />
(National Institute <strong>of</strong> Cinematography) and at Escuela de Cine de Avellaneda, Buenos<br />
Aires. She has also written and directed several TV programmes and theatre plays.<br />
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