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Visions from the South:
Argentinean Documentary
Pulqui, un instante en la patria de la felicidad (Pulqui, a Moment in the Native Land of Happiness)
Alejandro Fernández Mouján
Argentina, 2007
Digibeta SP PAL/NTSC | 85min. | Colour
Production: Cine Ojo / Marcelo Céspedes
Screenplay: Alejandro Fernández Mouján
Photography: Alejandro Fernández Mouján
Editor: Alejandro Fernández Mouján
Sound: Jésica Suárez
Actors: Daniel Santoro, Miguel Biancuzzo
Sinopsis
El Pulqui was the first jet plane designed and built completely in Argentina during Perón’s government (1951). Perón was overthrown in a military coup in 1955 and the project died along with the hope of a different country. In 2005 painter Daniel Santoro set out to build an aluminium Pulqui plane half the size of the original that would take to the skies.
Festivals
Mejor Película Argentina - FIPRESCI Argentina 2007
Special Mention from the Audience - Visions du Réell 2007
Mejor Director Largometraje Documental - Tandil 2007
Mención Especial del jurado - Punta del Este 2008
BAFICI 2007