Alejandro FADEL

Alejandro Fadel was born in Tunuyán (Mendoza, Argentina) in 1981. He moved to Buenos Aires to study at Universidad del Cine where he directed his first short films. In 2003 he co-directed the feature film El amor (primera parte), premiered at Venice Critics Week. Since 2004, Alejandro is writing for cinéma and colaborates with Argentinean and international directors such as Pablo Trapero (Leonera, Carancho,  Elefante Blanco and Siete días en la Habana, all of them premiered in Cannes), Walter Salles, Israel Caetano, Santiago Palavecino, Damián Szifrón and most recently Peter Weber.  In 2011, Alejandro co-founded La Unión de los Ríos with his friends Agustina Llambi Campbell, Martin Mauregui, Santiago Mitre and Fernando Brom. Together they produced his first feature film, Los Salvajes.  Los Salvajes has been premiered and awarded in 2012 at Cannes’s Critics Week, screened in festivals all over the world and released in France where it got amazing press. Alejandro is currently developing his second film Desobediencia Civil, a horror film set in the mountains of Los Andes.

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