Fernando Martín Peña

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Fernando Martín Peña

Born November 12, 1968 · Buenos Aires, Argentina (age 57)

Fernando Martín Peña is an Argentine teacher, film critic, researcher and collector. He has published several books on film topics since 1991. Since December 2006, he has been conducting "Filmoteca, temas de cine" at midnight on Argentine Public TV. As a researcher, Peña has been responsible for the recovery of several films that were deemed lost or incomplete, such as an unknown 16mm copy of the …

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DefectDefect · 2024
Defect
2024
MovieDocumentary
After finding the soundtrack of Tararira, the only Argentine surrealist film shot in 1936, lost since then, and starring their great-grand uncles, the Aguilar brothers set out to unravel the family history at the crossroads of the great political events of the 20th century. It is also a story of El Cuarteto Aguilar, a very particular music band, which had an openly lesbian member in the first half of the last century. The discovery of the soundtrack of the lost film leads to a documentary collage that travels through Argentina, Spain and other parts of the world to ask again, one hundred years later, if perhaps the revolution is not also an aesthetic.
Cómo se hizo "La hora de los hornos"Cómo se hizo "La hora de los hornos" · 2007
Cómo se hizo "La hora de los hornos"
2007
MovieDocumentary
An extensive interview with Fernando Solanas and an important amount of unpublished material, the documentary describes the process of making the most influential film of Latin American cinema. It was done exclusively to accompany its home release.
Continuará...Continuará... · 2024
Continuará...
2024
MovieDocumentary
The most transcendent and controversial event since the invention of the seventh art: the disappearance of photographic film. What for many people seems to be simply the result of technological evolution, brings with it paradoxes and contradictions that endanger photographic film heritage and accelerate its deterioration.
A Movie ManA Movie Man · 2022
A Movie Man
7.02022
MovieDocumentary
The political history of Argentine film censorship narrated through the professional career of Néstor Gaffet (1928-1982), lawyer, film distributor and producer, publicist, occasional screenwriter, critic and teacher.
Gombrowicz or The ImmaturityGombrowicz or The Immaturity · 2024
Gombrowicz or The Immaturity
8.02024
MovieDocumentaryComedy
A documentary of absurdist humor that delves into the immaturity of Witold Gombrowicz, the controversial Polish writer who lived in Argentina and wrote the first existentialist novel.
Vlasta, el recuerdo no es eternoVlasta, el recuerdo no es eterno · 2025
Vlasta, el recuerdo no es eterno
2025
MovieDocumentary
When she made her first film in 1960, Vlasta Lah was the only woman to direct a sound feature film in Argentina. Her path was arduous and long: from her childhood in a country torn apart by war to her training at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, to her arrival in Argentina fleeing another war, where she became the most important assistant director at Estudios San Miguel. Through her personal correspondence and a meticulous investigation, her name will be rescued from oblivion.
76 89 2376 89 23 · 2025
76 89 23
2025
MovieDocumentary
This documentary pays homage to 76 89 03, the controversial 2000 film directed by Cristian Bernard and Flavio Nardini. 76 89 23 seeks to deconstruct the past and present from a socio-political, cultural and economic approach, exploring key moments in Argentine history.
Tras los pasos de SuperpochoTras los pasos de Superpocho · 2025
Tras los pasos de Superpocho
2025
MovieDocumentary
Documentary that follows a group of filmmakers who investigate the existence of a Peronist superhero that Perón allegedly proposed to publish. They interview historians, graphic artists, and sociologists to reconstruct this figure, whose evidence was destroyed after the 1955 coup d'état and the persecution of Peronism.

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