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Birthday:

10-13-1974 (50 years)

Birthplace:

Montevideo, Uruguay

Biography

Pablo Stoll (born 1974) is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter. He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, there he met Juan Pablo Rebella and producer Fernando Epstein, and the three of them founded Ctrl Z. After graduating in 1999 he and Rebella directed their first feature film, 25 Watts (2001), it went on to win several international awards. In 2004 Stoll and Rebella released their second feature film, Whisky. It premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival opening to much acclaim, receiving the Un Certain Regard award. Stoll's first film following Rebella's suicide, Hiroshima (2009), is "a silent musical" in which all verbal communication was reduced to brief intertitles. His film 3 was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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A Useful Life

Act like Moviegoer

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A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.

January 6th

Act like Cristian

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Two friends wake up on January 6th, they have breakfast, they take a shower, they play boggle, and they get presents from the Three Wise Men. This film includes fragments from “December 31st” (1996) which was made by the same team.

December 31st

Act like Cristian

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Roque and Cristian have no special plans for the day.

Whisky

Director

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When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

25 Watts

Director

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24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.

Director

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Dissatisfied with his new life (and wife), a man tries to insinuate himself back into the home of the ex-wife and daughter he left ten years before.

The Friendly Man

Writer

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On the night of the return to the stage of a famous rock band from the 1980s, a video that involves the band`s lead singer Aurélio Sá in the death of a military policeman, goes viral.

Hiroshima

Director

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A young man in Uruguay has trouble expressing himself verbally. As the lead singer in a band, he interacts with the world through his music.

The Empty Classroom

Director

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Eleven award winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school.

The Summer Hit

Director

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When Felipe’s ex-girlfriend breaks his heart, it feels like it’s the end of the world – and he’s not wrong. A strange zombie plague is unleashed on the paradise beach his friends have taken him to get his head in the right place. This is how the hectic pursuit for survival begins, where telling apart the living from the dead becomes the hardest part. Felipe will do whatever it takes to save his life, his friends’ lives and Ana’s life, a beautiful and problematic girl. Who would’ve guessed a zombie apocalypse would be the beginning of a new life and new love?

Short Plays

Director

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Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Víctor and the chosen ones

Director

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Two friends staying at a summer house find a strange animal in front of the house looking at them, and they discuss what to do with it.

Dolphins Go East

Continuity

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Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.

El Facilitador

Screenplay

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This documentary addresses two political scandals that marked Luis Lacalle Pou's administration: Alejandro Astesiano and Sebastián Marset, two names that were previously unknown to most citizens.

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