DER Documentary

Traces and Memory of Jorge Prelorán (Huellas y Memoria de Jorge Prelorán)

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by Fermín Rivera
color, 79 min, 2009
Spanish and English, with English subtitles

COMING SOON

Jorge Prelorán filmed a genre of his own, ethno-biographies, for more than twenty years. By focusing on one character and following him or her for a period of time, Prelorán achieved profound portraits that express the particular vision of the world of different people. Traces is an ethno-biography, but in this case the character is Prelorán himself, and the director a disciple of his.

The movie unravels the life of Jorge Prelorán, the way he did with his own characters. From a childhood signed by asthma problems, a high class family and a strict education to becoming a man who changed the cinema, creating a new genre.

Director Statement:
“Making this film was an excuse to be near Jorge. As he used to say "I don't choose the characters, they choose me." I also feel that, at some point, Jorge chose me. Getting to meet Jorge was a turning point; living with him, reuniting with a teacher who inspires and transmits his creativity fever. An entrenched humanist, who did not lose faith in the human condition.

This movie is the result of the friendship and the affection, the living together, the time and the learning from a master. I shot this movie for five years in six provinces of Argentina, and three countries. We accompanied Jorge through different places and with different characters, always working on his projects despite the illness he carried till the moment of his death.” — Fermín Rivera

“Two words come to my head when I think (of) Traces: respect and sensitivity. Fermín approached Jorge's life and thought with tremendous respect and a great dose of sensitivity” — Mabel Prelorán

Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards
Special Award, 1^st San Juan Documentary Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
Special Mention, 9^th Tandil Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
Best Documentary Award, 5^th La Plata Latin American Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
Best Documentary Award, 9^th Images of Patagonia Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
Special Award, 5^th Tucumán Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
Special Award, 12^th Santiago de Cuba International Documentary Festival, Cuba, 2010
Best Documentary Award, 1^st Cosquín International Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
Special Mention, 3^th Tarapacá Film Festival, Chile, 2011
Special Mention, 13^th Argentinian Film Festival La Sudestada, France, 2011
FIPRESCI Best Documentary Award, 29^th Montevideo International Film Festival, Uruguay, 2011
Special Mention, Art Section, 5^th Festival of Ibero American Films, Mexico, 2011
People's Choice Award, 4^th Punta del Este Film Festival "Cine del Mar", Uruguay, 2011
24^th International Film Festival of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2009
12^th Film Festival of Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2010
16^th International Film Festival of Catalunya, Spain, 2010
9^th Festival of Other Cinema, Equator, 2010
14^th Week of Movies of Salta, Argentina, 2010
7^th Piriapolis International Film Festival, Argentina, 2010
5^th DOCs DF International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico, 2010
15^th Ourense International Film Festival, Spain, 2010
32^th La Habana International Film Festival, Cuba, 2010
35^th Trieste International Film Festival, Italy, 2010
9^th Festival Argentina New Cinema, USA, 2010
26^th International Film Festival of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2011
1^st Film Festival of Concordia, Argentina, 2011
7^th Independent Film Festival of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2011
2^nd DOCSTOWN, Mexico, 2011
Festival on Diversity Beeld Voor Beeld, Colombia, 2011
5^th Exhibition of Argentinian Flms of Leipzig, Germany, 2011
CINECIEN Scientific Film Festival of Mercosur, Opening Movie, Argentina, 2011

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