The Association of Associated Argentine Directors (DAC) honored filmmakers Santiago Mitre, Ana Katz, Sebastián Boreztein, Lorena Muñoz, José Celestino Campusano and Franca González with the Lifetime Achievement award.
The award ceremony was held last night in a celebration for the 65th anniversary of the creation of the association that brings together filmmakers from all over the country and defends their rights, and on the eve of Audiovisual Director’s Day, which is celebrated this Sunday.
At the same ceremony, María Luisa Bemberg and César D’Angiolillo received the “In memoriam” award and Sergio Rentero and Gabriela Plazas from Laboratorios Gotika were recognized for the Recuperar Plan.
Audiovisual Director’s Day was instituted in Argentina in 2012 as a reminder of the creation of the DAC in 1958, a management entity that protects, collects and distributes the copyrights of film and television directors.
More than 500 guests attended last night’s celebration, which took place at the association’s headquarters, called Casa del Director, in the Villa Crespo neighborhood.
The DAC awards are made up of a statue of Leonardo Favio proportionally reproduced to the scale of the original sculpture by audiovisual director and sculptor Eric Dawidson, produced by the DAC Foundation and located since last March at Av. Corrientes and Vera in the City of Buenos Aires as a tribute to the great creator of Argentine popular cinema and art.
Sergio Rentero and Gabriela Plazas, from Gotika digital laboratories, were also especially recognized with this distinction for the Recover Plan, which gave new life in 4K to more than 100 Argentine films, including classic works such as “Juan Moreira”, “Waiting for the carriage”, “Man looking to the southeast”, “Made in Argentina”, A place in the world”, “Elsa and Fred”, “Nobody’s Lady”, “A red bear”, “Eva Perón”, “The King’s Movie” ”, “Thanks for the fire” or “The exile of Gardel”.
Last night was the first celebration of the National Day of the Audiovisual Director since 2019, since the last three editions were suspended due to the restrictions of the pandemic.
Source: Ambito
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