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Ana Katz

02.11.1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina

She is an actress, screenwriter, director, as well as film and theater producer. After studying directing and acting, she began
her career as a filmmaker with numerous feature films such as The Game of the Chair (2002 - Special Mention at San Sebastian IFF), Una Novia Errante (2007 - Un Certain Regard - Cannes Festival), Los Marziano (2011 - San Sebastian IFF Official
Selection), My Friend from the Park (2015 - Script Award at Sundance IFF) and Sueño Florianópolis (2018 - Special Jury Prize, Best Actress and Fipresci Prize at Karlovy Vary FF). Her new film is The Dog who wouldn’t Be Quiet (2021 - Sundance IFF, IFF Rotterdam).

Filmography

Films by this director

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

(El perro que no calla, Argentina, 2021)

Directed by: Ana Katz

PHOTOGRAPHY: Fernando Blanc, Marcelo Lavintman

Synopsis:

Sebastian is an ordinary man in his thirties devoted to his loyal dog and working in a slew of temporary jobs. As he moves fitfully through adulthood, he navigates love, loss and fatherhood - until the world is rocked by a sudden catastrophe, upending his already turbulent life. Photographed in stark black-and-white imagery, and awash in ruminative metaphor, writer-director Ana Katz captures Sebastian’s midlife coming of age in slices of life both specific and universal as he struggles to adjust...

b/w, DCP, 73’

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