Fernando Birri

After being involved in theater and poetry, he went to Rome to study film-making at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from 1950 to 1953, and appeared in the 1955 Italian film Gli Sbandati.

In 1956 he returned to Santa Fe, to form the Film Institute at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral university.

A year later he started filming scenes of poverty and human misery in lower-class Santa Fe.

After directing a short film about La Pampa Gringa (La pampa gringa) in 1963, Birri retired from directing and only returned 12 years later to make a movie about Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Mi hijo el Che) in 1985.

[1] In fall 2009, Birri was a visiting professor at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.