ARGENTINA

Argentina

España. 2006. Color. 14 min. Ficción. 35mm.

Film Director: Xavier Etxeandia; Igor Zabala.
Scriptwriter: Igor Zabala.
Producer: Itxaso Atutxa; Juan Carlos L. Villameriel.

Ernesto, a normal guy, gazes at the Bilbao ria from a handrail of the Guggemheim walk. Emiliana and Laurita, two Argentinian tourists, ask him to take a picture of them in front of the museum. Ernesto takes advantage of the situation to try to seduce them...

Xavier Etxeandia

Xavier was born in Bilbao in 1964. Graduated in Fine Arts, he participated in several courses (direction, scriptwriting, etc.) and in 1990 he joined television where he has developped his career as director until now. Amongst his late works, we can highlight the programme for the Spanish television (El coro de la cárcel) as director and the short film 'Argentina' co-directed with Igor Zabala.

Igor Zabala

Igor was born in Barakaldo in 1973. After he graduated in Law at the UPV, he studied Scriptwriting with lecturers such as Michel Gaztambide or Robert McKee. From 1997, he has been working in ETB, as scriptwriter in several fields: debates, quizzes, humour programmes and testifying programmes. Since 2003, he has been working as creative director por the production company 3koma, where he has been participating in the creation and design of the formats for ETB, Canal Sur and Spanish Television.