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New artistic leadership at the Festival
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival announces Jorge Stamadianos and Gabriel Lerman as the new artistic directors of its 39th edition. Both will succeed Pablo Conde, who fulfilled that role in the last two editions.
Jorge Stamadianos graduated from the Centro de Experimentación Cinematográfica (CERC) with a degree in Film Direction. His first film as director and screenwriter, Rompecorazones (1991), participated in various international festivals including Chicago, Havana and Cartagena.
Throughout his professional career, he has worked with celebrated figures such as Alejandro Doria, Gael García Bernal and Salma Hayek and received recognition for his roles as director, writer and producer in both film and television.
He worked for the Fox Channel in Los Angeles for 20 years where he served as Creative Director of National Geographic Channel for Latin America, taking over as Vice President of the Fiction Department for Fox Latin American Channels, in 2007, where he was responsible for supervising and approving the development, production and post-production of series.
Gabriel Lerman, for his part, worked as a film journalist for more than 30 years, interviewing movie stars and covering the world of entertainment for national newspapers and magazines such as Clarín, La Nación, Página/12, Humor and Satiricón, as well as for other international publications in Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Honduras and the United States.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - the entity that awarded the Golden Globes until 2023 - for 20 years. He received twelve awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and was nominated for the international journalism award given by the Publicist Guild of America. He has also received recognition as a novelist and screenwriter.
Within the film festival circuit, he has participated as a press correspondent and jury member at festivals in Guadalajara, Seattle and Palm Springs. During the last decade he collaborated with the Golden Globes website, where he coordinated the Spanish-language coverage of the awards ceremony.
The new edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival will take place from November 21 to December 1, 2024. Organized by the Argentine National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and being the only Class A festival in Latin America recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), the Festival is a key venue for cinema in the region.