ALEJANDRO MACI

Bachelor of Philosophy. Trained in theater under Agustín Alezzo and collaborated for a decade in film with filmmaker María Luisa Bemberg. He developed his career in parallel between theater and cinema. Simultaneously, he directed and wrote successful television series such as Tumberos, Lalola, Los Exitosos Pells, Criminal, Sol Negro, Variaciones Walsh, and all three seasons of En Terapia, which garnered numerous awards and distinctions. Lalola became one of the most adapted series globally, with remakes in 50 territories.

At the Havana Film Festival, his debut feature film El Impostor received three Coral Awards, including the Silver Coral. His television work has earned Martín Fierro, ACE, Fund TV, Clarín, and Emmy awards. In 2011, he was honored with the Platinum Konex Award as the Best TV Screenwriter of the Decade and won two Emmy Awards for the miniseries Televisión por la Inclusión.

In 2017, he premiered the feature film Los que Aman, Odian, which won two Silver Condor Awards, and in 2022, he released the documentary María Luisa Bemberg: The Echo of My Voice, which was invited to the Rotterdam and Mar del Plata Film Festivals and was nominated for a Silver Condor Award in 2023. That same year, he premiered the miniseries Santa Evita, based on the novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, which won Produ Awards (including the Gold Award), nine Silver Condor Awards (including Best Director, Miniseries, and Gold), and the Platino Award for Best Actress (Natalia Oreiro).

In parallel, he teaches seminars on film analysis, screenwriting, and filmmaking. He is currently preparing two fiction feature films: Anatomía del Odio, based on a true story, and Como dos Extraños, adapted from a Hanif Kureishi story. He has in post-production the documentary feature film El Último Viaje a China, about the Uruguayan-Argentine actress China Zorrilla.