Ángel Faretta

Film critic and screenwriter Fernando Regueira wrote, "Faretta is the only thinker with his own theory of cinema--and a general aesthetics--in our country and, perhaps, in the whole Spanish-speaking world".

• Name — Ángel Faretta • Born — 21 April 1953 • Birthplace — Buenos Aires, Argentina • Occupation — Novelist, playwright, short story writer, poet, film critic • Period — 1980–2009 • Genre — Fiction, essay

He was born in Buenos Aires on April 21, 1953. He is from a traditional Italian family. His father, Donato (1900-1988), emigrated to Argentina in 1926, where he engaged in rural work in the region of the family property in Saladillo and then in industry and construction. His mother, Lisa Pingitore (1914-1988), born in Argentina, also descended from a very traditional family from the south of Italy of noble ancestry, especially through the maternal line of the Di Renzo family. Faretta did his primary and secondary studies with the Piarist Fathers at the Calasanz School in Caballito. He studied philosophy, theology, aesthetics, history of art and religion, as well as traditional symbolism with Gillo Dorfles and Guido Aristarco in Italy, and with Adolfo Carpio, Conrado Eggers Lan, Antonio Pagés Larraya, and Héctor Ciocchini in Argentina, among others. In Faretta's words; "In those years, secondary school, at least the one I attended, provided a comprehensive education. Latin, theology, philosophy, literature, and, most importantly, the interaction with teachers.." Faretta has been teaching privately for four decades, developing his theory in seminars, conferences and in a number of private courses. He has declined university engagements in his country.