Diego Arsuaga

Diego Arsuaga (born January 13, 1966 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan director .

Arsuaga won in 1986 for the in collaboration with Carlos Ameglio incurred La fruta en el fondo del tazón Rate at a film festival. For Los últimos vermicellis from 1987, for which he also took over the camera work, he also received national and international prizes, for example in Cuba , Paraguay and Colombia . Since 1988 he has shot numerous commercials. From 1996 he was director of Taxi Film, responsible for productions in advertising, television and film. In 1999 Plata quemada was created in this context . At Otario from 1997 he took over the direction and camera. In 2002 the film Corazón de fuego was released , which was shown in cinemas in the northern hemisphere under the name El último tren (German: El último tren - The Last Train ) and for which he was responsible as director. According to press reports, on September 5, 2002, this film, in which Federico Luppi , Héctor Alterio , Elisa Contreras , Franklin Rodríguez and Eduardo Migliónico participated as actors, already had 49,557 visitors in Uruguay. He won several awards that year at the Montreal Film Festival. He received the audience award for the best Latin American film, the award of the Ecumenical Jury and was awarded for the best screenplay.

Filmography

• 1986: La fruta en el fondo del tazón , with Carlos Ameglio
• 1987: Los últimos vermicellis
• 1996: El hombre de Walter , short film
• 1997: Otario
• 2002: Corazón de fuego (also known as El último tren )
• 2011: Adicciones (camera and direction)
• 2012: El ingeniero

literature

• Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 32

Web links

• Diego Arsuaga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• EL ÚLTIMO TREN - THE LAST TRAIN Director: Diego Arsuaga; with short biography (PDF; 48 kB), accessed on April 28, 2012