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Early Life and Beginnings

Born on February 7, 1968, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Diego Olivera stepped into the world of acting at a young age. His career began at 12 with the play Escenas de la Calle (Scenes of the Street) at Teatro San Martín. Under the guidance of theater legends such as Alejandra Boero, Carlos Gandolfo, and Héctor Bidonde, he honed his craft, laying a solid foundation for a flourishing career in the entertainment industry.

Rise to Fame

Diego Olivera first gained widespread recognition as Darío in the Argentine television series Montaña Rusa. This role solidified his status as a beloved teen actor. His versatility as a performer soon led him to take on various roles in musicals, showcasing his singing talent in productions like La Bella y la Bestia (The Beauty and the Beast) and 101 Dálmatas (101 Dalmatians).

International Success

In 2006, while filming La Ley del Amor in Argentina, Olivera...

When Martín Rejtman's Two Shots Fired screened at the New York Film Festival last fall, I collected what amounted, for the most part, to tentatively positive reviews. Now the film's returning to the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a week-long run as part of the retrospective Sounds Like Music: The Films of Martín Rejtman. We're collecting fresh reviews and, so far, notes on Rapado, Rejtman's 1992 debut that "lit a path to the New Argentine Cinema," as well as on Silvia Prieto and The Magic Gloves. » - David Hudson...

When Martín Rejtman's Two Shots Fired screened at the New York Film Festival last fall, I collected what amounted, for the most part, to tentatively positive reviews. Now the film's returning to the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a week-long run as part of the retrospective Sounds Like Music: The Films of Martín Rejtman. We're collecting fresh reviews and, so far, notes on Rapado, Rejtman's 1992 debut that "lit a path to the New Argentine Cinema," as well as on Silvia Prieto and The Magic Gloves. » - David Hudson...

Opening Night – World Premiere

Gone Girl

David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m

David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...

The 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala has unveiled its lineup for the 2013 edition which will be held from June 7-11 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

The festival is organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, in addition to the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk). The festival has a National level competition for Documentaries (long and short), short fiction, animation, music videos and campus films. The Best Short Fiction (upto 69 mins) wins a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/ and a certificate. Best Animation wins a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/ and a certificate while the Best Music Video is also awarded a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/ and a certificate.

National Competition: Short Fiction

23 Winters

Dir: Rajesh S. Jala/30min/2013

Afternoon/Do Pahar

Dir: Shazia Shrivastava|Sharifa Roy/29min/2012

Alfie

Dir: Thomas Mathai/26min/2013

Behind the Wall/Bhinti Maage

Dir: Vishwesh Kolwalker/14min/2013

Bleeding

Dir: AromalT./21min/2012

For Hire

Dir: Varun Chawla...

MILAN -- In what it hopes will be a sign of things to come at this year's MIFED, leading German sales outfit Bavaria Film International closed a series of deals on the eve of the market including multiple territory sales for Kim Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring and a six-picture deal with Israel's Orlando Films. Spring, Korea's official Academy Award entry this year, was sold in all-rights deals to Metro Tartan for the United Kingdom and Ireland, Rialto for Australia, Spain's Festival Filves, Audiovisual for Greece, Imovision for Brazil, Portugal's LNK, Septimo Arte for Mexico, Rayson Global for Argentina and SPI International for the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. Orlando, which has had a local hit with Bavaria's Good bye, Lenin! inked a six-picture deal with the German group, picking up Israeli rights to Soenke Wortmann's soccer drama The Miracle of Bern, Cesc Gay's In the City, Jaime Rosales' The Hours of the Day, Extrano by director Santiago Loza, Martin Rejtman's The Magic Gloves and Hans-Christian Schmid's Distant Lights.