Fernando Solanas

Fernando Solanas
Solanas at the Guadalajara Film Festival, 2008
Argentine Ambassador to UNESCO
In office 10 December 2019 – 6 November 2020
Preceded by	Rodolfo Terragno
Succeeded by	Marcela Losardo
National Senator
In office 10 December 2013 – 10 December 2019
Constituency	City of Buenos Aires
National Deputy
In office 10 December 2009 – 10 December 2013
Constituency	City of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born	(1936-02-16)16 February 1936 Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	6 November 2020(2020-11-06) (aged 84) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Cause of death	COVID-19[1]
Political party	Broad Front (1993–1994) Proyecto Sur (2007–2020)
Other political affiliations	South Alliance (1995) Broad Front UNEN (2013–2015) Creo (2017) Frente de Todos (2019–2020)
Occupation	Film director screenwriter politician

Fernando Ezequiel "Pino" Solanas (16 February 1936 – 6 November 2020)^[1] was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, score composer and politician. His films include; La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985), Sur (1988), El viaje (1992), La nube (1998) and Memoria del saqueo (2004), among many others. He was National Senator representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for six years, from 2013 to 2019.

Solanas studied theatre, music, and law. In 1962, he directed his first short feature Seguir andando and in 1968 he covertly produced and directed his first long feature film La Hora de los Hornos, a documentary on neo-colonialism and violence in Latin America. The film won several international awards and was screened around the world. Solanas won the Grand Jury Prize and the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Prix de la mise en scène at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1999 he was the president of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.^[2] He was awarded a special Honorary Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival. He collaborated with tango composer and musician Ástor Piazzolla on the soundtracks for various movies.