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Festival In Focus: San Sebastian Ramps Up Support For Argentina’s Film Industry For 72nd Edition
In keeping with its historical support of Latin American cinema throughout the years, the San Sebastian Film Festival will this year make an extra push Argentina’s cinema industry, which has been in a state of crisis since March
As a result, San Sebastian is hosting a day of action on September 24 and has teamed up with the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences and producer Gabriel Hochbaum along with a raft of Argentinian production companies, filmmakers and journalists for the event. That day will see the world premiere of Official Selection title The Man Who Loved UFOs( El Hombre Que Amaba Los Platos Voladores) from Argentine filmmaker Diego Lerman as well as an international premiere of Nicolás Gil Lavedra’s non-fiction title Traslados. Festival selection committee member Javier Martín, who is San Sebastian’s delegate for Latin America, says the crisis in Argentina reminds him of the situation of Spanish cinema in the 1960s and 1970s during the Francisco Franco dictatorship.
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