Sergio Bellotti

Died 2012-10-20

Sergio Bellotti was an Argentine screenwriter and film director who also served on television in his country. In cinema he worked as an interpreter in Contragolpe (1979) directed by Alejandro Doria, as production director in Mario Levín's Sotto voce (1996) and production manager in Eduardo Milewicz's Life According to Muriel (1997). He also work in three fiction feature films directed by Bellotti according to a script by Daniel Guebel and with the participation of the actor Luis Ziembrowski received not a few praise and recognition in his country and in foreign festivals: My Treasure (1999) inspired by the case of the assistant bank treasurer Mario Fendrich who made a millionaire robbery from the bank where he worked, Sudeste (2002), adaptation of a story by Haroldo Conti that was filmed in the Paraná River Delta and La vida por Perón (2004) set in the 1970s in Argentina. Bellotti also worked in advertising films and on television, a medium in which his participation as executive producer of the successful television series Poliladron (1994) and the telenovela Bajamar (1996) is remembered, as well as as director of ESMA: an Argentine institution ( 2006), the latter production in which he summarized in 5 hours material of 150 hours of filming. Already seriously sick, he directed Oficios nocturnos, a television series for which he toured Buenos Aires in search of characters characteristic of its nightlife. Bellotti died on October 20, 2012 at the age of 54 due to liver problems when he had been hospitalized for two weeks waiting for a liver transplant.