AFICIONADOS

On Friday 25 June, director Arturo Dueñas will premiere his documentary film Aficionados at the Terrario at Intermediæ, as the final event in the series Cruzando los márgenes: gente de a pie que sube a los escenarios (Crossing Borders: Ordinary People on Stage). Aficionados, 2010 (Spain). Fiction. Director: Arturo Dueñas. Running time: 115’. Spanish. Premiere. Aficionados of life… because life is not for professional: an unusual librarian, a successful executive, an elementary school teacher, a single mother, an Italian cook, a computer programming specialist… meet weekly to cultivate their favourite hobby. Aficionados is an experimental film created collectively in which the (non-professional) actors were chosen first and they created their own characters.   Arturo Dueñas (Valladolid, 1962) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a diploma in film, and is an actor and film and theatre director. His training in theatre was at the Aula de Teatro at the Universidad de Valladolid and the Centro de Investigación Actoral Espacio Abierto; he studied in the Master’s Degree Scriptwriting Programme at the Universidad de Salamanca and at a filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy. He directed the short films Run, Run, Run (2007) and Pucela Square(2008). SCREENINGS AT EL TERRARIO presents videos, documentaries and films related to Intermediae programming. Offered in cine forum format on the last Friday of each month, the series invites audiences to a dialogue and debate with its creators. > Where? At the Terrario
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