Matías Piñeiro

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982. Writer and director of films, he currently lives in New York, USA. For the last ten years he has been developing a cycle of films based on the female roles in William Shakespeare´s comedies called “The Shakespeareads”. He teaches filmmaking at Pratt Institute (New York - USA) and coordinates the filmmaking department at Elías Querejeta Zine Escola (San Sebastian, Spain). He programed in Punto de Vista Film Festival (Pamplona, Spain) and Anthology Film Archives (N.Y., USA). At present, he is working in the feature film You Burn Me based on a text by Cesare Pavese on the figure of Sappho.