SIESTA | El Perro en la Luna (AR)

LATIN AMERICAN FOCUS MEMBER

FERNANDO SALEM Director, El Perro en la Luna (AR)
Fernando Salem was born in Buenos Aires, in 1976. He studied Communication Sciences and he graduated as a filmmaker from ENERC. Fernando directed several short films, most notably Trillizas Propaganda! which won the National Arts Fund Alberto Fischerman Award, and was selected by and received honors in more than twenty festivals such as Venice, Sapporo, Mar del Plata, Friburg and San Sebastian, where it won the Jury Special Mention Award. Since 2009, he has directed documentaries for the educational TV channels Encuentro and PakaPaka and won several awards. He co-created The Amazing Journey of Zamba. It was nominated for the International Emmy® Kids Awards.