Octavio Getino (August 6, 1935 in León, Spain[1] – October 1, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine film director and writer who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.
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Getino was born in Spain and migrated to Argentina in the 1950s.
In 1964 he was awarded the Premio Casa de las Américas for his short-stories book Chulleca. Getino also left a number of essays on cinema and sociology.
From 1989 to 1990, Getino led the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (INCAA).
He died of cancer at 77, on October 1, 2012.[2]
Filmography
edit- The Hour of the Furnaces (Hora de los hornos, 1968)
- Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación (1969)
- Perón: La revolución justicialista (1971)
- Perón: Actualización política y doctrinaria para la toma del poder (1971)
- El Familiar (1975)
Works as writer
edit- Chulleca (short stories, Casa de las Américas, La Habana, 1963)
- A diez años de "Hacia un tercer cine" (Filmoteca UNAM, 1982)
- Notas sobre cine argentino y latinoamericano (Edimedios, 1984)
- Perú (CIMCA, 1985)
- Cine latinoamericano (Editorial Legasa, 1988)
- Cine y dependencia (Puntosur Editores, 1990)
- Turismo y Desarrollo en América Latina (Limusa, 1994)
- Las industrias culturales en la Argentina (Ediciones Colihue, 1995)
- La Tercera mirada (Paidós, 1996)
- Cine argentino (Fundación CICCUS, 1998)
- Cine y televisión en América Latina (Ediciones CICCUS, 1999)
- El cine de "las historias de la revolución" (Grupo Editor Altamira, 2002)
- Turismo entre el ocio y el neg-ocio (Ediciones CICCUS, La Crujía, 2002)
See also
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edit- ^ (in Spanish) Octavio Getino, Cinenacional.com
- ^ Filmmaker, Author Octavio Getino Dies at 77
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