TropiChat 20: Matías Piñeiro
Moderated by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Cinema Tropical
Wednesday, June 9, 5pm EDT
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982. Matías Piñeiro earned a filmmaking degree from Universidad del Cine. His award-winning films have been screened around the world, including at Anthology Film Archives, Festival des 3 Continents, the Locarno Film Festival, the Berlinale, the London Film Festival, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art, Rencontré Cinémas d’Amerique Latine de Toulouse, the New York Film Festival, and the Viennale.

In 2007 he made his debut feature film, The Stolen Man / El hombre robado, followed by They All Lie / Todos mienten in 2009. He has spent the last decade working on “The Shakespeareads”, a series of films focusing on Shakespeare’s female characters: Rosalind (2010), Viola (2012) The Princess of France / La Princesa de Francia (2014), Hermia & Helena (2016), and Isabella (2020). He also teaches film at the Pratt Institute in New York, at Le Fresnoy in France and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián as well as being curator of the Punto de Vista Film Festival in Pamplona.

TropiChat 20 is a special series of twenty weekly conversations with key Latin American and U.S. Latinx directors and film professionals, presented on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Cinema Tropical.

Co-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University (CLACS); powered by Pirotecnia Films.

Special thanks to Irazú Sánchez Villalobos, Manu Guerrero, and Juan Pedro Agurcia.