Natalia Meta

Natalia Meta is an Argentine film director and screenwriter .

Life

Natalia Meta studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires . In 2006, together with Luis Chitarroni and Diego D'Onofrio , she founded the publishing house La Bestia Equilátera (German: "The animal of the same kind "). Meta and D'Onofrio had noticed that novels by the Scottish author Muriel Spark had been out of print in Argentine bookstores for several years. Then they decided to reissue the novels themselves. In 2008, Los encubridores and Memento Mori, two Spanish translations of Sparks' novels, were published. Under Chitarroni as editor-in-chief, who was previously the editor of Random House Mondadori Argentina , La Bestia Equilátera developed into a recognized independent publisher in Argentina with further publications of works by Sparks, as well as by Roberto Bazlen , Alfred Hayes , David Markson , Kurt Vonneguts and Virginia Woolf .

Meta first appeared as a director in 2014 with the feature film Mord in Buenos Aires , for which she also co-wrote the script. The crime film is set in Buenos Aires in the 1980s and focuses on a police inspector (played by Demián Bichir ) who has to solve a murder in the gay milieu of the rich and beautiful. To do this, he smuggles a young colleague ( Chino Darín ) into the scene as a lure , who soon brings the family man himself into doubt about his sexual orientation. Mord in Buenos Aires was successful in domestic cinemas with 500,000 viewers and earned Meta a nomination for the Argentine Film Academy Award for the best debut film. In Germany, on the other hand , the film-dienst spoke in a short review of a smooth, "low-tension crime thriller" and criticized the "cheesy vocal parts" that appear in the film.

In 2020 Meta received an invitation to compete at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival for its second feature film El prófugo , based on a novel by CE Feiling . The film production, advertised as a “psycho-sexual fantastic thriller”, is about a woman (played by Érica Rivas ) who is increasingly drifting into a paranoid state after a personal stroke of fate.

Filmography

2014: Murder in Buenos Aires (Muerte en Buenos Aires)
2020: El prófugo

Web links

Natalia Meta in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c El prófugo . In: berlinale.de (accessed February 15, 2020).
↑ Maximiliano Papandrea, editor of La Bestia Equilátera: "Si algo tiene una editorial independiente es dependencias" . In: suburbano.net, March 13, 2013 (accessed February 15, 2020).
↑ Murder in Buenos Aires . In: filmdienst.de (accessed February 15, 2020).
↑ John Hopewell; Emiliana Granada: Watch the Trailer from Just Announced Berlin Competition Entry 'The Intruder' (EXCLUSIVE) . In: variety.com, January 29, 2020 (accessed January 31, 2020).

personal data
SURNAME	Meta, Natalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentinian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[berlinale-1] El prófugo . In: berlinale.de (accessed February 15, 2020).

[2] Maximiliano Papandrea, editor of La Bestia Equilátera: "Si algo tiene una editorial independiente es dependencias" . In: suburbano.net, March 13, 2013 (accessed February 15, 2020).

[3] Murder in Buenos Aires . In: filmdienst.de (accessed February 15, 2020).

[4] John Hopewell; Emiliana Granada: Watch the Trailer from Just Announced Berlin Competition Entry 'The Intruder' (EXCLUSIVE) . In: variety.com, January 29, 2020 (accessed January 31, 2020).