Elisabetta Perut Bozzolo (born 25 February 1970) is a

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an journalist, film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for the documentaries ''Un hombre aparte'' and '. Both of these were made in collaboration with Iván Osnovikoff, a director with whom she has done most of her audiovisual work in the

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

field.

Career

Most of Perut's filmography has been made with Osnovikoff. Her first work was ''Chi-chi-chi-le-le-le. Martín Vargas de Chile'' in 2000, which won Best Film at the Valparaíso Film Festival and Best Research at the Santiago Documentary Festival in 2001. This was followed by ''Un hombre aparte'' (2001) – which won the jury prize for Best Experimental Documentary at the

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– ''El Astuto Mono Pinochet Contra La Moneda de los Cerdos'' (2004), and ''Welcome to New York'' (2006), the latter of which was nominated for a Pedro Sienna Award for Best Short and Documentary Short Film. In 2009, ''Noticias'' was released, winning Best Experimental Documentary at the Parnü IDF in Estonia. ' (2011) received a special award from the

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jury. In addition, Perut has won three

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s: two in 2002 in the categories Best Direction and Best Creative Contribution, and one in 2007 for Best Direction in Documentary Film. She received a nomination in the same category in 2012.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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