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In Uruguay, a forgotten national ballet company performing in a half-finished theater is shaken into life by the arrival of Julio Bocca, one of the best ballet dancers of all time.

Series

Global Voices

Premiere Date

June 26, 2016

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Juan Alvarez Neme

Producer/Director

Uruguayan filmmaker Juan Alvarez Neme studied at the Film School of Uruguay in 1999. He is an independent producer of documentaries and television programming, specializing in directing, editing, and script writing.
Virginia Bogliolo

Producer

Virginia Bogliolo earned a degree in Social Communication from the Uruguayan Republic University in 2000. She taught film production at the Uruguayan School of Cinema until 2009 and today is at the Bios School of Communications. Between 2003 and 2008 she was an executive at Lavorágine Films, and is now a producer for Tarkiofilm, developing and producing films with international distribution potential.
Pablo Ratto

Executive Producer

Born in Argentina in 1969, Pablo Ratto received a degree in physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the UBA. He decided in 2002 to abandon science to devote himself exclusively to movies. With his production company Trivial Media he produced the documentary M, which won the Best Latin American Feature film and the FIPRESCI Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata. He was the first Latin American producer that won a prize at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Yamagata, Japan.
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