Argentina,
1960, 33 min
Shown in 2002
CREDITS
- dir
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Fernando Birri
- source
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Latin American Video Archives, 124 Washington Place, New York, NY 10014. FAX: 212-243-2007. EMAIL: imre@igc.org
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COMMENTS
Fernando Birri was the recipient of the 2002 Persistence of Vision Award. Fernando Birri in person. Shown with Los Inundados.
OTHER
A glimpse of an Argentine shantytown, focusing on interviews with desperate—yet articulate—residents. Fernando Birri’s first Argentine film, a “social inquiry” into a people fighting for their lives, is deceptively polite: By letting the people speak for themselves, he intends to devastate.
—Pacific Film Archive
FACTOID #257
Funny Girl was selected by the San Francisco Film International to receive the Samuel Goldwyn Award as the best picture made in the U.S. in 1968. Star Barbara Streisand and producer Ray Stark attended the Festival to pick up the award.
