Mario Gallo (director)

He directed what is nowadays considered the country's first fiction feature movie, El fusilamiento de Dorrego, now lost.

[1][2] Born in Barletta, Apulia, southern Italy, Gallo arrived in Argentina in 1905 and began directing in 1909 El fusilamiento de Dorrego, which he presented a year later.

Argentine cinema had so far consisted of shorts depicting parts of Buenos Aires and even a documentary by Eugène Py, in 1900, but Gallo's film was the first to be a feature work of fiction.

Gallo's films consisted of short glimpses of reenacted Argentine history - historical events, myths and battles.

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