Silvia Prieto

by Martín Rejtman

On the day of her 27^th birthday Silvia Prieto decides to change her life. She takes on a job as a waitress in a café, she buys a canary, and stops smoking grass. She also buys chickens which, under an obsessive impulse, she cuts up into tiny pieces; four chickens into forty-eight pieces for the refrigerator. When she meets an Italian tourist who tells her of another woman called Silvia Prieto her world is turned upside down.

Production:
Hernán Musaluppi/Martín Rejtman,
Gorriti 4349
Buenos Aires (1414) Argentina
Telephone: (54 11) 48 31 84 53
Fax: (54 11) 48 32 20 35
E-mail: musa@sinectis.com.ar

Producteur délégué:
LES ATELIERS DE L’ARCHE,
Jo Gaye Ramaka,
19, rue Martel 75010 Paris (France)
Telephone: 33-(0)1 47 70 70 40
Fax: 33-(0)1 47 70 70 35

With the participation of: Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (Argentina), ministère des Affaires étrangères (Direction de l’audiovisuel extérieur et des techniques de communication), ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Centre National de la Cinématographie) - FONDS SUD CINEMA (France)

Contact:
Babelsberg Film-und Fernsehvertriebs Gmbh
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E-mail: babdistributor@studiobabelsberg.com
Gisela Waetzoldt - Hildebrandt / Head of sales

Contact in France:
LES ATELIERS DE L’ARCHE,
Telephone: 33-(0)1 47 70 70 40
Fax: 33-(0)1 47 70 70 35

Festivals:
Sundance Film Festival (World Premiere)
Berlin International Film Festival (Forum)
San Francisco International Film Festival
Munich International Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival
London Film Festival
Festival des Trois Continents (Nantes), Meilleur scénario - Meilleure actrice (Rosario Bléfari)

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Credits: 1999
Screenplay
Martín Rejtman
Running time
92 minutes
35 mm colour
Feature Film • Original version in Spanish
subtitled in English
Director of Photography
Paula Grandio
Sound
Frenkel
Ntaca and Tendier
Music
Gabriel Fernandez Capello
Editing
Gustavo Codella
Set Design and Props
Sebastian Orgambide et Alejandra Seeber
Cast
Rosario Blefari (Silvia Prieto)
Valeria Bertuccelli (Brite)
Gabriel Fernandez Capello (Gabriel)
Marcelo Zanelli (Marcelo)
Susana Pampin (Marta)
Luis Mancini (Mario Garbugila)

Filmography: Martín Rejtman was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. He studied film at New York University. His first two films were short films in black and white: "Doli Vuelve a Casa" shot in Buenos Aires and "Sitting on a Suitcase" in New York. In Buenos Aires in 1992 he directed his first feature film, "Rapado", which was selected by many festivals (Rotterdam, Locarno, etc.). At the same time he published his first collection of short stories also entitled Rapado. Whilst working as a filmmaker Rejtman continued to write. In 1993 he wrote Treinta y Cuatro Historias - Un libro sobre Kuitca in collaboration with the Argentinaan artist Guillermo Kuitca, and which was published by the Spanish Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno and the Contemporary Art Foundation of Amsterdam. In Argentina in 1996 he published Velcro y Yo, a book of short stories (re-edited in 1999 by Lengua de Trapo, Spain). "Silvia Prieto" is his first feature film.

Silvia Prieto

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