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Director Martin Rodriguez Redondo

Martín Rodríguez Redondo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 9th, 1979. He graduated from the Buenos Aires Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (CIC) as Integral Filmmaker for Cinema and TV. 

He performed as Assistant Director in the documentaries Il rumore della memoria by Marco Bechis, Hombres muertos by Gregorio Crámer, El fin del Potemkin and El silencio, both by Misael Bustos, among others. 

He produced the documentaries Kosice Hidroespacial, by Gabriel Saie, premiered at 2016 BAFICI, and Barrio Modelo by Mara Pescio. 

Marilyn is his first feature film as director. It won the CICAE Art Cinema Award at the “Cine en Construcción” section of Toulouse Cinélatino Rencontres Festival, and the Sin Sistema prize at the Work in Progress section of BAL (Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival). It also won INCAA’s First Feature Film Prize, INCAA-CNCA Co-Production Support Fund (Argentina-Chile), and Ibermedia’s Film Co-Production Support Fund. It has participated at the Oaxaca Film Script Lab (Mexico), the San Sebastián Film Festival Co-Production Forum (Spain), the SANFIC Santiago Industry Lab, and Australab at FICValdivia (both in Chile). 

Martín also directed the short film Las liebres, winner of INCAA’s Historias Breves film contest. It was screened at the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, the Havana Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, and the Kinoforum São Paulo International Short Film Festival, among other places 

Cast

Walter Rodriguez as Marcos: Argentinian actor born in 1998. He studied theater, musical comedy and acrobatics during High School. Before even finishing school, he went to Marilyn’s casting and was selected. It is his first performance.

Catalina Saavedra as Olga: Chilean actress born in Valparaíso. She has played in more than 25 films, 20 TV series and 20 theater plays. She was honored 3 times with the Altazor Prize for the National Arts of Chile. She is internationally recognized for having played the leading role in the award-winning movie The Maid (La nana), by Sebastián Silva, for which she won the Best Actress award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival along with another ten international awards.

German de Silva as Carlos: Argentinian actor who worked in more than twenty feature films. He starred in Las Acacias, by Pablo Giorgelli, winner of the Golden Camera of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 among other international awards. He also starred in The Owners, by Ezequiel Radusky and Agustín Toscano, winner of a Special Distinction at the Critics’ Week at Cannes Film Festival 2013. He won the South Prize of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Argentina for Best Supporting Actor for Wild Tales, by Damián Szifrón, premiered at the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival 2014.

Ignacio Gimenez as Carlitos: Young Argentinian actor who played his first leading role in Nordeste, by Juan Solanas, premiered at Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2005. He was also co-star of the feature film Una semana solos, by Celina Murga and the TV series The House, directed, by Diego Lerman.

Andrew Bargsted as Federico: Chilean leading actor of three Chilean films with international recognition: the short film Lost Queens (Locas perdidas,) by Ignacio Juricic, winner of the second prize of the Cinefondation of the Cannes Film Festival 2015; You’ll Never Be Alone (Nunca vas a estar solo), by Alex Anwandter, premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival 2015; and Bad Influence (Mala Junta), by Claudia Huaiquimilla, winner of the Prix Lycéen of the Latin American Festival of Toulouse, France, 2017.