Guillermo Fernández Jurado
Directing
Biography
Guillermo Fernández Jurado (November 18, 1923 – June 24, 2013) was an Argentine film critic, journalist, film director and documentary filmmaker.
Known For

With the expansion of television in Argentina people changed their customs and schedules. This is the story of a family father who refuses to change his own, but who suffers after having acquired a television set.
El televisor

The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relationship during which each of them will peek into the world of the other, until then unknown, unable to overcome the hostility of the same. Luis is unwilling or unable to leave his bourgeois stability and "La Tigra" is unable to leave an environment in which the malevo Olivera is the dominant figure.
La Tigra

The meeting of a famous star and a mortally ill film director, to shoot his latest movie. During his career he made disasters, but now, incurably ill, he wants to express something worthwhile before dying.
Sombras en el cielo

The sufferings of a northern town in the face of an implacable drought.
Taita Cristo
Documentary about the tango singer and composer Carlos Gardel. It includes fragments of his films and testimonials from friends and biographers.
Gardel, el alma que canta

A compilation of the origins of Argentine cinema up to the 1960s.
Aquel cine argentino

Life and use of a newspaper, from its preparation and distribution until it becomes a paper boat as a toy for a child. It won the silver bear in the Festival of Berlin.
Diario
Montage film with fragments of 30 Argentine and foreign films related to tango.
El tango en el cine
Película documental de montaje, describre la historia de la conquista espacial desde el primer vuelo suborbital de Alan Sheppard hasta el lanzamiento del Apolo 11. Montage documentary film, describes the history of space conquest from Alan Sheppard's first suborbital flight to the launch of Apollo 11.