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Juan Villegas

Juan Villegas

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Biography

Juan Villegas was born in Argentina in 1971, he is a director, screenwriter, producer and has also worked as an assistant director and editor in both short films and feature films. He studied film direction at the Universidad del Cine, where he currently works as a teacher. During his first period as a director, he made the short films “Rutas y veredas” (1995), “2 en 1 auto” (1998), “A happy afternoon” and “Hugo” (2002). In 2001, he premiered his debut feature, “Saturday,” at the Venice International Film Festival, where he received great recognition from international critics. In 2005, he scripted and directed the feature film based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Di Benedetto “The Suicides”, a film that opened the 20th edition of the BAFICI. As a producer he worked on feature films; “A Week Alone”, “Escuela Normal”, “The Third Shore” by Celina Murga, “Miss”, by Robert Bonomo, “Villegas”, by Gonzalo Tobal; “Diarios de Mendoza”, by Lucía Mendoza and “Días extraños”, by Juan Sebastián Quebrada, among others. In 2010, he co-directed the feature film “Ocio”, alongside Alejandro Lingenti, based on the novel of the same name by Fabián Casas. In 2015, he made the documentary titled “Victoria”, based on the portrait of this artist's life over a period of one year. In 2018, he premiered “Las Vegas” again at the BAFICI, a romantic comedy.

Known For

A Week Alone
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Maria is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in an upscale gated suburb. Maria's parents are going out of town for a week, and rather than leave her with relatives or hire a babysitter, Maria is put in charge of looking after her little sister Sofia, with housekeeper Esther serving as a nominal adult authority figure, though for the most part she lets Maria and the others do what they please. With only their parents bedroom off-limits, Maria and Sofia have the run of the house, and soon they and their friends Facundo, Quique, Rodrigo and Timmy are spending their days exploring the place. As the kids begin creating their own rules to run counter to the ones their absent parents set down, Esther brings a young relative, Fernando, to play with them, and the privileged kids begin to get a notion of the ways of the outside world.

A Week Alone

2009Movie
Intervened Archives: Cinema School

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

Intervened Archives: Cinema School

2016Movie