Conversation. Meeting between female creators

Date and time: Friday, Nov. 7th. 7.00 p.m.

Venue/Room: Casa América

 Free admission until full capacity is reached

https://www.casamerica.es/cine/encuentro-entre-creadoras

Hosts: A representative of Casa de América and Carlota Álvarez Basso, director of the festival.

Title: Discussion. Meeting between Creators

Type of activity: Talk

Participants:

• Martina Gusmán / actress and producer / Argentina
• Antonia Zegers / actress / Chile

Antonia Zegers (Chile) and Martina Gusman (Argentina), two of the most outstanding actresses in Ibero-American cinema with great international recognition and who have a long and solid career in film, series and theatre, will share their careers, challenges, acting techniques, perspectives on their participation in the film industry and how they have maintained their passion for acting over time.

Martina Gusmán is an Argentine actress and producer with a solid career in film, television and theatre. Her international recognition came with Leonera (2008, Dir. Pablo Trapero), presented at Cannes, and continued with titles such as Carancho (2010), El Hijo (2018), El Inocente (Netflix, 2021) and the series El Marginal (2015–2021). She also participated in international productions such as Echo 3 (Apple TV, 2022) and Dr. García's Patients (Netflix, 2023). In 2024 she starred in Romina Smile. Together with Pablo Trapero, she founded the production company Matanza Cine, from where she promoted key works of new Argentine cinema such as El Bonaerense (2002), Familia Rodante (2004), Géminis (2005) and La Rabia (2008), as well as titles of great international projection such as Carancho and La Quietud (2017). She is currently developing projects with a feminist perspective such as Intersex, La Fragilidad and Indistintas (all in development by 2025). Socially committed, she has participated in inclusion programs in Argentina and Spain, as well as in projects to support vulnerable people, integrating her artistic vocation with her training as a graduate in psychology specializing in trauma.

She graduated from the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Cuba), where she made her first short films.

She has written, produced and directed the feature films: Qué tan lejos” (2006), En el nombre de la hija (2011) y La invención de las especies (2024), screened and awarded at festivals in Havana, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Punta del Este, Guadalajara, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome and Geneva, among others.

She combines independent film production with university teaching and research. She has complementary studies in Cinematographic Aesthetics; Creative Writing; and a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies. She is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, with a dissertation on Poetics of the script.

She has been a film professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito SFQ (1996–2007), director of the Film Career at the Universidad de las Artes de Ecuador (2016–2017).

She currently teaches courses in the Master's Degrees in Creative Writing (UARTES) and Latin American Cinema (UARTES Cuba), and in the Film Career of the UDLA. She has participated as a jury and speaker in film festivals and cultural meetings in various countries.

She has been an Assemblywoman of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly 2007-2008, a member of the Superior Council of the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema and founder and director of the Ecuador Corporation for Feature Films.

Antonia Zegers is a Chilean actress. She studied at the Gustavo Meza School of Theatre. She has played an important role in the development of Chilean cinema in the last fifteen years, being part of films such as Post Mortem -Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival-, No, El Club El Conde, by Pablo Larraín; Sábado, La vida de los Peces, Mensajes Privados and El Castigo -Best Actress at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Beijing Film Festival, Lima Film Festival, Trieste Film Festival and Seattle Latin Film Festival-, by Matías Bize. She has also worked with Marcela Said in Los Perros -Best Actress at the Stockholm Film Festival- and with Dominga Sotomayor in Tarde para Morir Joven.

Her latest performances are Los Domingos Mueren Más Personas, by the Argentinian filmmaker Iair Said and Los Tortuga, by the Catalan director Belén Funes.

On television she has participated in series such as La Jauría, by Lucía Puenzo and Dignidad, by Julio Jorquera. In theatre she has been part of plays such as Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony, by Bertolt Brecht; The Terrible Parents, by Jean Cocteau; Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov and Girls and Boys, a monologue by English playwright Dennys Kelly directed by Alfredo Castro.