Fernando Birri

Fernando Birri was born on Mar 13, 1925 in Argentina. Fernando Birri's big-screen debut came with Allegro squadrone directed by Paolo Moffa in 1954, strarring . Fernando Birri is known for Vanishing Landscapes directed by Eliseo Subiela, María Luz Subiela stars as and Juan Manuel López Baio as . Fernando Birri has got 4 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Fernando Birri achieved is Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards. The upcoming new movie Fernando Birri plays is Vanishing Landscapes which will be released on May 02, 2013.

Birri is known as the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema". He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Roma, and after graduating returned to the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, where he founded the first film school specialized in documentary in Latin America. He was forced to exile due to the Argentinean military coup d'état, and lived in Italy where he shot his three-hour experimental film "Org". In 1986 he helped to found the International School of Film and Television in Cuba, and was chosen as first principal. He also taught film courses in Mexico and Venezuela, but remained in Italy, where he died.