Aída Bortnik
Aída Bortnik (born January 7, 1938 in Buenos Aires ; † April 27, 2013 there ) was an Argentine screenwriter and writer .
Life
Aída Bortnik was born in Buenos Aires in 1938 as the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants. At the age of 20, she began studying both law and theater in order to be able to finance her passion as an actress as a lawyer. She then worked as a journalist for a few years. After writing the television film Sebastián y su amigo el artista for the first time as a screenwriter in 1971 , she later adapted Mario Benedetti's novel La tregua for the film The Armistice , which was nominated for an Oscar in 1975 for Best Foreign Language Film . However, she ended up on a blacklist from 1975 , so that she was prohibited from pursuing both her film career and her journalism. When she was persecuted by Perón's military dictatorship, she fled first to France and then to Spain , where she lived for several years.
However, she never stopped writing and used her experiences under the military regime and the Dirty War to create the script for The Official Story , for which she was honored with an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1986 .
Most recently, Bortnik held private writing and film analysis courses.
Works
- 1981: Papa Querido
- 1985: Primaveras
- 1988: Domesticados
- 1989: Por La Vida
Filmography (selection)
- 1971: Sebastián y su amigo el artista
- 1974: The Armistice (La tregua)
- 1975: In the shadow of many years (Una mujer)
- 1985: The official story (La historia oficial)
- 1986: Poor butterfly (Pobre mariposa)
- 1989: Old Gringo
Awards (selection)
- 1986 : Nomination for Best Original Screenplay with The Official Story
literature
- Annette H. Levine: Cry For Me, Argentina: The Performance of Trauma in the Short Narratives of Aida Bortnik, Griselda Gambaro, and Tununa Mercado , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2008, ISBN 1611473713
- Eladio Cortes & Mirta Barrea-Marlys: Encyclopedia of Latin American theater , Greenwood 2003, ISBN 0313290415 , page 15
Web links
- Aída Bortnik in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Murió la PRESTIGIOSA guionista argentina Aída Bortnik
- ↑ See Cortes & Barrea-Marlys, page 15.
- ↑ See Levine, p. 20.
- ↑ See Levine, p. 31.
- ↑ Mariana Mactas: Esa magia eterna del guión on pagina12.com.ar of December 26, 2011 (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bortnik, Aída |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian screenwriter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 2013 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires , Argentina |