Santiago Giralt

Director, writer, producer, actor, playwright and novelist, Santiago Giralt is one of the leading figures in Argentinean cinema. He studied Film Directing at the Universidad del Cine. He lived in Vancouver for a year in 2002. His movies have been presented in many international film festivals: Cannes, London, Rotterdam, Locarno, Buenos Aires. He has written, directed and produced five movies: UPA! An Argentinean Movie, The L. Sisters, All The Lonely People, Before Opening Night and Anagrams (in development). He has written many screenplays for other filmmakers and has won international prizes. He is one of the five most important screenwriters of the past decade in Argentina and was a finalist for the National Screenwriters Prize.