Fernando Ezequiel "Pino" Solanas (16 February 1936 – 6 November 2020)[1] was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, score composer and politician.

His films include; La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985), Sur (1988), El viaje (1992), La nube (1998) and Memoria del saqueo (2004), among many others.

Solanas was at the forefront of the Grupo Cine Liberación which shook Argentine cinema during the 1970s, developing its social conscience and political voice.

Solanas continued to make political films and was an outspoken critic of Carlos Menem, the Argentine President.

[4] Despite dealing with the attack and disability, Solanas became even more involved in politics and stood to be a Senator for Buenos Aires, receiving 7% of the vote in 1992.

In October 2007, Solanas was a presidential candidate in the 2007 Argentine general election for the Authentic Socialist Party.