Fabián Bielinsky

Fabián Bielinsky
Born	(1959-02-03)3 February 1959 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	28 June 2006(2006-06-28) (aged 47) São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation	Director

Fabián Bielinsky (3 February 1959 – 29 June 2006) was an Argentine film director born in Buenos Aires.

He started to make films early in his life, while still a high school student in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, after graduation he started studying psychology, a career he shortly followed and dropped out in favor to enroll in the Centro de Experimentacion y Realizacion Cinematografica (CERC, actually ENERC, INCAA's film school), to later graduate from said institution in 1983 with a short film called La Espera, based in a story by Jorge Luis Borges.

He directed his first film, Nine Queens (original title Nueve Reinas) in 2000, and the second one, El Aura, in 2005, which he was going to present in Edinburgh, at the International Film Festival a month later. Both films starred Ricardo Darín in the lead role and Alejandro Awada in a supporting role.

Bielinsky died from a heart attack, in 2006, at only 47 years of age, while he was in São Paulo, Brazil, doing a casting for an advertisement.

Although he directed only one short and two feature films, his work was shown worldwide to excellent reviews. His work is more appreciated in his country of origin for finding a way to make an entertaining yet thoughtful story that grips the viewer in an industry where film offerings are more polarized between overtly intellectual auteur cinema and apparently content-lacking commercial films.

External links

• Fabián Bielinsky at IMDb
• BBC Movies. 8 July 2002. Interview.
• Clarín. 29 June 2006. Murió Fabián Bielinsky, director de "El Aura" y "Nueve Reinas".
• Página/12. 29 June 2006. El adiós a un talento de alto vuelo

Notes

• In both of his films ("El Aura" and "Nueve Reinas") various characters mention El Turco, a powerful underworld figure who is never shown on screen.