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Argentine film maker and theorist (1925–2017)

Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 27, 2017) was an Argentine film maker and theorist.

Biografía de Fernando Birri (Su vida, historia, bio resumida)

He was considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema.

Biography

Birri was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. After being involved in theater and poetry, he went to Rome to study film-making at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from 1950 to 1953, and appeared in the 1955 Italian film Gli Sbandati.

In 1956 he returned to Santa Fe, to form the Film Institute at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral university. A year later he started filming scenes of poverty and human misery in lower-class Santa Fe. The project, billed as a "survey film", spanned three years, and filming wrapped up in 1958. Before screening the resulting 33-minute documentary, Tire dié, Birri debuted with a short film called La primera fundación de Buenos Aires, which premiered in the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, earning B Fernando Birri Archive - Brown University FAZAB