Marcelo Piñeyro (born March 5, 1953) is an

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award-winning

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, and film producer.

Biography

Born in

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, Piñeyro studied

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at the University of La Plata's School of Fine Arts. In 1980, he and his associate Luis Puenzo founded Cinemania, a

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n production company. In 1984, Piñeyro came to international attention as executive producer of ''

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'' (directed by Luis Puenzo). In 1985, the film became the first Latin American movie to win an

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for the Best Foreign Language Film. In 1992, Piñeyro premiered as a director with ''Tango Feroz'' (''Tanguito, Wild Tango''). In Argentina, the film set attendance records and initiated a debate about the country's past. Screened at such film festivals as the

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in 1993, the film won several awards including the Premio del Jurado Joven en el Festival de San Sebastián (1993). '' Caballos Salvajes'' (''Wild Horses'') (1995), Piñeyro's second film as director, became the second-highest attended film in Argentina. It received a number of awards, including the ''Jury's Special Mention'' at the 1996

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. The film also played such festivals as the Mostra Internazionale del Film Venecia and the New Directors/New Films Festival (1996) at the

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. Piñeyro's next film, ''

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'' (''Ashes of Paradise''), was produced by Buena Vista International and became Argentina's highest-grossing film in 1997. It won a number of international awards, among them the Spanish

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for Best Foreign Film in Spanish and was selected to present Argentina for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. In addition, the film was screened at a number of international film festivals, ranging from the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival to the

. In 2000, '' Plata quemada'' (''Burnt Money'') gained international recognition and reached a considerable audience worldwide. In

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, where a large part of the plot takes place, ''Plata quemada'' became even the most viewed film of the year. Screened at international film festivals like Venice,

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, Toronto, and Rio de Janeiro, it also won a number of awards and award nominations. In 2001, Piñeyro contributed the short film "El Dorado" to ''Argentina Vivo 2001'', an

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of shorts by Argentine directors. The following year, his feature ''

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'' played at film festivals in

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;

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, and

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, and was selected to represent Argentina for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. His next film, ''

El método ''The Method'' () is a 2005 thriller film directed by Marcelo Piñeyro and based on the 2003 play ''El mètode Grönholm'' by Jordi Galceran. It stars Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernández, Pablo Echarri, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia ...

'' (''The Method''), premiered in 2005 and was shown at several international film festivals, including the

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. It won two Goya Awards (2006), including one for Piñeyro for best adapted script. In 2009, '' Las viudas de los jueves'' (''The Widows of Thursdays'') was released. As of 2013, his most recent film is '' Ismael'', starring

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, Belén Rueda and Sergi López. Piñeyro has so far worked with

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(4 times), Leonardo Sbaraglia (4 times),

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(3 times), Leticia Brédice (3 times), Ernesto Alterio (2 times), Eduardo Noriega (2 times),

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(2 times) and Fernán Mirás (2 times), as well as

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, Imanol Arias, Dolores Fonzi and Natalia Verbeke. Piñeyro, as of April 2007, has been scripting a new project in collaboration with Marcelo Figueras, with whom Piñeyro had already worked for '' Plata Quemada'' and ''

''. (17/04/2007). Marcelo Piñeyro sur Casamérica.es
(retrieved April 20, 2007)

Filmography

Director and writer * '' Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito'' (1993) ''Tanguito'' * '' Caballos Salvajes'' (1995) ''Wild Horses'' * ''

'' (1997) a.k.a. ''Paradise Ashes'' * '' Historias de Argentina en vivo'' (2001) (as one of several directors) * ''

'' (2002) (solely director) * '' Plata quemada'' (2002) a.k.a. ''Burnt Money'' * ''

'' (2005) aks ''The Method'' * '' Las viudas de los jueves'' (2009) aks ''The Widows of Thursdays'' * '' Ismael'' (2013) Producer * '' La historia oficial'' (1985) a.k.a. ''The Official Story''

References

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