Octavio Getino
Illustration — The directors Gerardo Vallejo, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino together with Juan Domingo Perón (1971). Octavio Getino (August 6, 1935 in León, Spain – October 1, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine film director and writer who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema. Getino was born in Spain and migrated to Argentina in the 1950s.
Octavio Getino
Original publication: Siete Días Ilustrados (Published on 23 August 1971) Direct source: Facebook post · Public domain
- Born
- 1935 · León.
- Died
- 2012 · Buenos Aires.
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Occupation
- director · writer · screenwriter
- Fields
- film direction · creative and professional writing
- Honours
- Sutherland Trophy · Casa de las Américas Prize · FIPRESCI Prize at Berlinale
- Languages
- Spanish
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In 1964 he was awarded the Premio Casa de las Américas for his short-stories book Chulleca. Getino also left a number of essays on cinema and sociology. From 1989 to 1990, Getino led the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (INCAA). He died of cancer at 77, on October 1, 2012.
The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is film direction and creative and professional writing. Work by Octavio Getino is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Harvard Film Archive. Distinctions recorded are Sutherland Trophy, Casa de las Américas Prize and FIPRESCI Prize at Berlinale.
• The Hour of the Furnaces (Hora de los hornos, 1968) • Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación (1969) • Perón: La revolución justicialista (1971) • Perón: Actualización política y doctrinaria para la toma del poder (1971) • El Familiar (1975)
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• Chulleca (short stories, Casa de las Américas, La Habana, 1963) • A diez años de "Hacia un tercer cine" (Filmoteca UNAM, 1982) • Notas sobre cine argentino y latinoamericano (Edimedios, 1984) • Perú (CIMCA, 1985) • Cine latinoamericano (Editorial Legasa, 1988) • Cine y dependencia (Puntosur Editores, 1990) • Turismo y Desarrollo en América Latina (Limusa, 1994) • Las industrias culturales en la Argentina (Ediciones Colihue, 1995) • La Tercera mirada (Paidós, 1996) • Cine argentino (Fundación CICCUS, 1998) • Cine y televisión en América Latina (Ediciones CICCUS, 1999) • El cine de "las historias de la revolución" (Grupo Editor Altamira, 2002) • Turismo entre el ocio y el neg-ocio (Ediciones CICCUS, La Crujía, 2002)
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