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Biography and Filmography
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| Pablo Agüero was born in 1977 and makes all of his films in El Bolsón, the Patagonian village where he grew up. It is a famous valley to where escaped Butch Cassidy, on-the-run Nazis, hippies in the 70's, solitary artists, dealers, gurus from every mystical bent and Europeans seeking refuge from the atomic bomb¿ When 15, he abandoned comic books to make "Más allá de las puertas" (First Prize at the Patagonian Art Biennale), then "Lejos del Sol" (Best Short Prize at the Buenos Aires Bafici Festival 2005) and also "Primera Nieve", the short which preceeds "Salamandra", Jury Prize (Official Competition) at the Festival de Cannes 2006 and First Prize (Príncipe de Asturias) at the Festival de Gijón 2006. "Salamandra" is his first feature film. The screenplay was awarded a development grant by the Festival d'Amiens (2005), the support of Fondation Groupama Gan Prix Opening Shot(2006) and of the Institut National de Cine Argentino Opera Prima (2006), as well as seeing him become a resident at the Cinéfondation, Festival de Cannes (2006) and at the Casa de América Fundación Carolina. |
Project presented in The Atelier
Palme d'Or for Best Short Film: "Sniffer" by Bobbie Peers - 28/05/2006
Palme d'Or for Best Short Film went to Sniffer by Bobbie Peers. The Short Film Jury presided by Andrei Konchalovsky also gave the Jury Prize to Primera Nieve by Pablo Aguero and Special Mention to Conte de Quartier by Florence Miailhe.
During the Award Ceremony, Bobbie Peers declared:
"A big thank you to my little girl, to all my family, to my children and to all those who worked with me on this project. I believed in this story from day one, right from the rough draft. I thank Dream Factory and many other people."
Added comments during the press conference following the ceremony:
"I've been writing features for myself since the year 2000; I've written three features already, which haven't been made. So I hope this is the chance to get them made. I also want to make more short films, because it's a growing format and you can tell certain stories in the short format that you can't do in a feature."
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