BOLIVIAN FILMMAKERS

CINE BOLIVIANO

Here are the Bolivian Filmmakers who screened their Short Films at the Broadway International Film Festival on Friday Sept. 4, 2009. Congratulations and much success to all!

	Sergio Bastani studied Film Directing at the New York Film Academy. He won the Platinum Remi Award at Houston International Film Festival with his short-film Yard of Blonde Girls. In 2009, Sergio will premiere Rojo Amarillo Verde his first feature collaboration with Bolivian Directors - Martin Boulocq and Rodrigo Bellott.
	Jose Sanchez - H. is the recipient of the CSU Rosebud Award for achievement in media arts and education. He is the co-author of the feature script La Paz which was a semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting Competition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences™. He supervised the restoration of the feature film Mina Alaska by award-winning Bolivian director Jorge Ruiz, the first Latin American film to be restored by the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences™. His on-going research includes his work on film preservation with the Academy Film Archive, and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. He is the author of the book The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema, which was nominated for a Theatre Library Association Award. He also writes for International Film Guide, published annually in the U.K. by Wallflower Press.
	Adriana Montenegro is a Bolivian filmmaker, her personal work addresses the concerns of her native Latin America and its social and cultural complexity through a language of metaphor and reflection. Having lived for extensive periods of her life in Bolivia, Japan and the United States, her work is influenced by her cross-cultural experience. She has recently completed her Master in Fine Arts in Film Directing at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. Her work has received awards such as a Visions of Latin America 2006 CNN award, Best Documentary 2007 at the UCLA film festival, a Hollywood Foreign Press Award for excellence in film directing, the Colin Higgins Award for the best director’s thesis screenplay and the Director’s Guild of America Award for Best Latino Short Film 2008 for From the Core. Currently, she's a fellow of Amsterdam’s Binger Film Lab for Directors 2009, where she is developing her first feature film.
	Rodrigo Patiño worked as an actor in Bolivia for eight years. After finishing his degree in Communication, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and traveled to the U.S. to pursue an MFA in Film and TV at Chapman University. At Chapman, Rodrigo received the Most Promising Filmmaker Award 1999 and in 2002 Best Director, Best Grad Film and Best Editor Award with his short Fine Line. In 2007, Rodrigo co-wrote and directed his first Indie feature Cielito Lindo, an edgy thriller shot in Mexico. The cast included Adam Rodriguez (CSI Miami), Nestor Serrano (24) as well as Nicole Paggi (One on One). Presently, Rodrigo is developing the project Rock, Paper, Scissors as well as teaching at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.
	Bernardo Peña, originally from Bolivia, moved to the US at the age of 7. Throughout his childhood and well into college, Bernardo had planned to be an artist, focusing on sculpture. He stumbled into an intro-to-acting class his junior year and quickly made the transition to the Dramatic Arts. Bernardo has been acting since 1995, starting in theatre then eventually in TV and film in Los Angeles and New York. Bernardo has also been writing for many years, originally as a child, illustrating and writing his own comic books. Get Outta Here!! was written approximately 4 years ago, then simply shelved. Not until recently, did Bernardo decide to have Get Outta Here!! produced, enabling him to make the transition to directing.
	Nelson Serrano was born in Bolivia in 1978. He started as an actor when he was 16 years old. He has worked in theater and cinema in Bolivia, New York and Los Angeles. His television experience includes Combat Zone (Discovery Channel), Nip Tuck, and Numbers. On the big screen his credits include The Day is Done, Dog Logic, Pankakes, Juan Frances, Live as well as Travesia. He is currently developing the feature film Provocation as Writer-Director.
	Anthony Rivero Stabley was born in La Paz, Bolivia. He’s a Production Designer turned Filmmaker. His previous work includes Art Direction of MGM's Stigmata, Warner Bros. White Oleander plus Production Design of the political thriller Formosa Betrayed, filmed in Bangkok last year. He was also a member of the Academy Award Winning VFX team on Terminator 2 under Supervisor Robert Skotak. As a Writer - Director his credits include the short film trilogy Electronica, the Pop Art comedy Marta's Sex Tape plus This is Not A Film which was Produced by Mariana Kahlo in Mexico City. He is currently developing the feature Las Super Bonitas with Producers David Hillary (Spun) and Tim Peternel (Buffalo 66). For more info on this award winning filmmaker visit SuperGrandeFilms.com
	We are very grateful to Marco Antonio Cuba and the Consul General of Bolivia for their support of this Cultural Event. Mil Gracias!