Argentina, 2009
documental
79’, 35mm, color
Dirección:
Fermín Rivera
Producción:
Fermín Rivera
Montaje
Pablo Valente y Emiliano Serra
Sonido
Gino Gelsi y Jorge Gentile
Música:
Leo Chialvo
Idioma:
Español
Subtítulos:
Inglés
Sinopsis español
Jorge Prelorán filmó por más de veinte años un género propio, las etnobiografías. Centrándose en la vida de un personaje y siguiéndolo por un tiempo determinado, logró profundos retratos para expresar la particular visión del mundo de diferentes personas. Huellas… se inscribe dentro de esa línea, sólo que en este caso el protagonista es el mismo Prelorán. Su vida tiene interés propio al margen de su amplia trayectoria como documentalista. Niño de clase alta de San Isidro, aprendió a hablar inglés antes que español. Fue vendedor de huevos, botones de hotel, soldado en Alemania. Solitario, aventurero. Referente internacional del documental antropológico, nominado al Oscar. El más prolífico realizador de su generación.
Haber filmado esta película y haber conocido a Jorge fue un punto de inflexión. Convivir con él durante más de cuatro años, reencontrarse con un maestro que motiva y contagia su fiebre creativa. Un humanista empedernido que nunca perdió la fe en la condición humana.
Sinopsis inglés
Jorge’s life has its own interest despite is brilliant career as a documentary filmmaker.
Raised in a high class family in the suburbs of Argentina's capital city, English was his mother tongue. He worked selling eggs, as a bellboy, pianist, gardener, photographer and was a soldier in Germany. His first marriage was arranged by correspondence and traveled the country by jeep. He became a key figure of the anthropological documentary, and was nominated for an Academy Award. The most prolific filmmaker of his generation, a tireless worker who let the voiceless speak, turning the filmmaker into a humanist.
Jorge documented the provinces of Argentina in a unique way for 25 years, in over 60 documentary films. In 1976, persecuted by the military dictatorship, he goes into exile in US where he works as a Professor in UCLA.
This film unravels the life of Jorge the same way he did with his characters: his childhood signed by his asthma, a high class family and a strict upbringing to became a man who changed the way documentaries are made, creating his very own genre.
When she is 14 years old, Yandri has already spent half of her life away from her father, José, who emigrated to Spain with the intention of offering his family a better future.
When her daughter emigrated, the children were left in charge of Gloria, who takes care of them as if they were their own children. Now her daughter, Jessica, has decided to take them to Spain in order to have them near her.
When he emigrates, Jorge left back in Ecuador his wife and two daughters, back then the youngest was only nine months.
This is the story of 3 families that struggle to be together again. In their way, they will find out that the time they have spent apart and distance are not the only obstacles they will have to overcome and that, maybe, despite the effort they may make, their lives will never be the same again.
Festivales
XIX Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
Tributo & Premio en vida a Jorge Prelorán
XII Festival Internacional de Cine de Punta del Este
Selección Oficial Panorama Documental
XVI Festival Internacional de Cine de Catalunya
Selección Oficial a Competencia
IX Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC 2010
Selección Oficial Panorama del Mundo
Trailer
www.huellasdepreloran.com.ar
