- The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi national banks that are shamelessly appropriating thei…
- Gerardo Vallejo's first film tells the story of the Reales family, which the director had already approached in Las cosas ciertas, a previous short film made within the context of the Santa Fe Documentary Film School. As Vallejo would recall later: "We wanted to discover, first, and create, later, using each chara…
- CHE, MUERTE DE LA UTOPIA? (CHE, DEATH OF A UTOPIA?)Argentina, 1997, Documentary, Color/B&W, 90 minutes.On the 30th Anniversary of the death of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, one of Argentina's major filmmakers, Fernando Birri, traveled camera in hand to follow the footprints of this legendary figure. In Birri's view it is appr…