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June 2009
Marco Bechis was born in Santiago, Chile and grew up in São Paolo and Buenos Aires. In 1977, at the age of 25, he was expelled from Argentina for political reasons and has since lived in Milan, New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He began making films in the early 1980s after attending Albedo film school in Milan. One of his first films, Garage Olimpo (1999), which tells the story of a concentration camp in Argentina during the military dictatorship, screened at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival, among many others, winning a total of 17 honors and awards, including the Silver Condor award for Best Director from the Argentinean Film Critics Association. In 2004 Bechis founded the production company Karta Film. His first film as a producer is Birdwatchers (2008), which tells the story of a tribe of Guarani Indians in Brazil attempting to re-inhabit their ancestral land. The film, which Bechis also wrote and directed, was nominated for the Golden Lion award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Audience
at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival
- Photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI
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