Buenos Aires Set

A cosmopolitan city, considered as one of the most important cultural hubs of Latin America. The city has an intense artistic life full of museums, art galleries, theaters, book stores and shows.

Buenos Aires has a very wide range of possible locations that allows us to recreate what ever comes to our minds. Buenos Aires counts with an architectural diversity that  place us as a key destination and a very versatile set for filming and recreating what ever place or time we can imagine.

This is why producers around the world are choosing Buenos Aires as a set. The results show how versatile our city can be. In every corner there is something new to be discovered and each production demonstrates why Buenos Aires is Audiovisual.

 Celebrating French Christmas in the 20’ - Commercial 2010

Furthermore, we are proud to announce the creation of Buenos Aires´s Audiovisual District. Watch the audiovisual industry stats!

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Peter Dodd at the 14th edition of BAFICI 2012

Last April 15th Peter Dodd, well renowned danish multitasking animator, director and writer, gave a conference at the BAFICI´s Auditorium along with Martina Santoro and Claudio Grandinetti, members of UIPAA (Argentinian´s Industrial Union of Animation Production Companies and Audiovisual Arts). The main theme was about animation methods and the director´s most recent work, “Freddy Frogface” the latest 3D animation film he directed.

Dodd also worked as an animator at the “Corpse Bride”, Tim Burton´s film and along with Wes Anderson at the “Fantastic Mr. Fox”  + INFO CLICK AQUI

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"Villegas" at the Cannes Film Festival 2012

Rei Cine, one of the five production companies that won the Film Commission´s recent competition to attend the Cannes Film Festival 2012, Le Marché du Films, will be presenting their last film “Villegas” directed by Gonzalo Tobal that will be screened in the Special Screenings Official Selection and will be competing for the Golden Camera as well.

 “Villegas” has recently participated in the BAFICI´S 14^TH edition for the national competition and won the Best Movie Award  by the “Premio Asociación Cronista Cinematográficos Argentinos”.

We are proud to accompany this success in representation of the City´s film Industry to the 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Le Marché du Films 2012 one of the most prestigious film festivals around the world.

FILM DETAILS

Year – 2012 / Country - Argentina / The Netherlands / France

Run Time - 95 min / Formato de Exhibición - DCP / Color / Dolby SR

Format - HD 4K

Production Companies - REI CINE / TRESMILMUNDOS CINE / PBK CINE / NFI PRODUCTIONS / CINÉ-SUD PROMOTION

Con el apoyo de - INCAA, Hubert Bals Fund, Dutch Film Fonds, Municipalidad General Villegas, Cinéfondation Festival de Cannes, AustraLab, Buenos Aires Lab, TyPA.

Writer & Director - Gonzalo Tobal

Producer- Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Juan Villegas

Co producer - Trent, Thierry Lenouvel

Associate producer - MATIAS GALERA / JOSÉ TOBAL

Cast - Esteban Lamothe, Esteban Bigliardi, Mauricio Minetti, Paula Carruega, Lucía Cavallotti, María Inés Aldaburu.

DP - Lucas Gaynor

Camera- Fernando Lockett

Art Direction - Julieta Dolinsky

Costume Design - Sandra Fink

Editing - Delfina Castagnino

Sound - Francisco Pedemonte

Music- Nacho Rodríguez Baiguera

SYNOPSIS

After a long time without seeing each other, two cousins, Esteban and Pipa, have to drive together to their grand-father’s funeral in Villegas, small inland town where they grew up together. This coming back soon turns into an intense emotional journey, punctuated by the reunions, the weight of the past and the end of an era.

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Interview with Zach Weintraub at BAFICI, presenting his new film “The International Sign for Choking”

The young director Zach Weintraub recently presented his film “The International Sign for Choking” at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival. A love story between the city and the filmmaker.

-What made you choose Buenos Aires to shoot your movie?

-I´ve studied here for over five months in 2008 and as it usually happens to anyone that comes here for a short term for some strange reason you want to come back. I just felt that it was time to make my next movie and thought “Why not in Buenos Aires?”. This city is the only place that I have been for more than a month aside of USA. I felt very familiarized with the city so once I was back at the US I began to write. In the middle of the process, my first movie was invited to participate of the BAFICI, so I came back to Buenos Aires. This visit  really helped me to refresh my memory, it had been two years already since my last visit and encouraged me to make this new project happen. It helped me to consider logistic issues, like where I was going to stay, where could I get the resources and support for the shooting and which places could I use as a proper location for the story.

-In your movie we can see several places of the City of Buenos Aires. How did you made the selection and what could you add about Buenos Aires locations in general?

It wasn´t hard for me to make the selection of the locations for my movie because they were all part of my memories as a student here. Places that I used to go when I lived here: bars, parks, streets, Cinemas, it was all in my head already. Unfortunately there were a lot of scenes that were cutted from the last and final cut of the movie. Buenos Aires is a really big city with a lot of different places and I had the possibility to shoot in every location that I wanted too.

-How did you find the right local producer for your movie?

-At the beginning we weren´t going to look for a local producer, but as we kept on going with the pre production we realized that we needed one. That´s why we called Manuel Garcia from 791Cine, distribution company in charged of my first movie´s distribution. He started helping us with specific things regards to the production and finally ended being a partner in this project due to his huge collaboration. He was a key peace of this equation, it was just four of us making this movie, he helped us a lot in terms of locations and in many other aspects of the process too.-

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Calle 13´s new video “La Vuelta al Mundo” shooted in Buenos Aires City by Campanella

Juan José Campanella,  Oscar winning film director, was incharged of

Calle 13 ‘s  last video clip called “La vuelta al mundo” that was shooted last weekend in Buenos Aires.

 

The song is part of the Puerto Rican´s band last record called “Entren los que quieran”, that won nine Latin Grammy Awards.

“La vuelta al mundo”, is that precise moment in which you decide to make a drastic change in the course of your life” explained the vocalist of the group. The location chosen for this shooting was an old tango building in the Villa Urquiza´s neighborhood with the special performance of Juan Minujín and Soledad Fandiño. “The story of this video is about two businessman that join together to escape reality submerging on a fantasy world.” described the film director of “El secreto de sus ojos”.

René Perez, the band´s singer, describes Juan José Campanella as “a great director and a very humble man”.

This video will accompany the band on their next tour that starts on the 6 of May in El paso, Texas (EEUU).

Video Source: Diario El País

Commercial Mission of Buenos Aires Film Commission at Cannes Film Festival, Le Marché du Film, France 2012.

We´ve selected five production companies to participate at the Cannes  Film Festival, Le Marché du Film, France 2012 as the City Government's committee by the Direction of the General Bureau of Creative Industries of the Ministry of Economic Development, offering as an incentive, $15 thousand Argentinian pesos for each company.

With a remarkable jury, Enrique Avogadro (General Director of the General Bureau of Creative Industries), Alejandro Cacetta (Executive Producer of Patagonik Argentina) and Diego Dubcovsky (Executive Producer, BD Cine), five from over twenty one projects and production companies, were selected to travel and participate at the Le Marché du films with the Buenos Aires Film Commission (BACF) that will be present with a stand during the fair that will be available to use it for meetings.

The winners are: Sudestada Cine, Rei Cine, Habitación 1520 Producciones, El Campo Cine and Magma Cine.

Maxi Dubois (Habitación 1520 Cine); Mauro García Alena and Sol Tossounian (Buenos Aires  Film Commission); Santiago Galleli (Rei Cine); Juan Pablo Gugliotta (Magma Cine); Iganacio Rey (Sudestada Cine); Nicolás Avruj (El Campo Cine)

This is the 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, consolidated as one of the most prestigious international film festival. We are proud to announce that for the fourth consecutive year the Buenos Aires Film Commission will attend to the fair with the main purpose of promoting our industry and our city as an international set as well.

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Buenos Aires Audiovisual City: Big Productions!

Read the complete info (english) at The Location Guide.


La ciudad de Buenos Aires, fue seleccionada por la productora MJZ, para realizar una publicidad de desodarantes Axe (Unilever).

El spot que será lanzado internacionalmente, contó con una gran infraestructura de producción.

El servicio de producción prestado por Labhouse, combinó condiciones climáticas ideales, efectos especiales de gran calidad, diferentes escenarios y locaciones, así como también técncicos de alta calificación, resultando en esta imponente e impactante publicidad.

Se realizó un gran despliegue de Efectos Especiales y Visuales, que con precisión garantizaron todos los choques y desplazamientos de vehículos, cuidando la seguridad de todo el equipo, actores, extras y técnicos.

El choque de un colectivo montado sobre un sistema de rieles para deslizarlo, fue un particular desafío de producción.

Mirá el resultado de este rodaje en locaciones de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Diagonal Norte, Puerto Madero y Plaza San Martín.

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