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Getting to Know Uruguayan Cinema with Diego Sardi
2019-02-25
Getting to Know Uruguayan Cinema with Diego Sardi
Diego Sardi is an independent film producer and head of the Film and TV department of the School of Communications at the University of Montevideo. He was born and raised in a rural region of Uruguay. While completing his Bachelor in Communications at the University of Montevideo, his passion became developing stories and having them come to life in films. Producing films: his calling. He received a Fulbright scholarship for his graduate studies in film producing in the US. In 2016 he obtained his MFA in Creative Producing at Columbia College Chicago.
After Grad School, he moved to Los Angeles, CA, where he worked at the Development and Production department of local and regional production companies, and where he also interned for the International Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute. He has produced narrative fiction films and documentaries that received national and international awards. Some of his most recent works are a documentary co-produced with a South African production company and micro documentaries for UNICEF and the United Nations.
Full program of visit can find here.
After Grad School, he moved to Los Angeles, CA, where he worked at the Development and Production department of local and regional production companies, and where he also interned for the International Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute. He has produced narrative fiction films and documentaries that received national and international awards. Some of his most recent works are a documentary co-produced with a South African production company and micro documentaries for UNICEF and the United Nations.
Full program of visit can find here.
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