| Director / Producer / Camera Op Marcelo Bukin is an award-winning filmmaker specializing in high-impact visual work. His style combines cutting edge storytelling skills with character driven narration earning praise from legendary filmmaking masters like Albert Maysles, Vojtech Jasny and Tom DiCillo. Highly versatile and a perfectionist, Bukin’s key is to dive-jump-interact across different film genres giving a unique life to each piece. He Directs, Shoots and Produces award-winning Documentaries, TV Commercials, Promos and Fiction. View online Reels Born in Argentina he set out for Europe after his studies in technical architecture and design. His one-year trip quickly transformed into a four-year excursion through Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, India, and Japan. Bukin graduated from the Centre d’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya and has since been working as a filmmaker around the world. In 2001, Bukin returned to Asia to manage the production of Los niños del Nepal (The Children of Nepal), which won the Spanish Academy Award (Goya Award) for best short documentary 2004. After Nepal, he directed a film campaign for the NGO Global Humanitaria about childhood poverty in Peru and Guatemala. The project won numerous awards, gave birth to three successful years of TV Commercials and became the inspiration for his films Angel’s Fire, Lima’s Streets, Bread, Mauris from Titicaca and Welcome to Poptun. These films have been screened and awarded worldwide at more than 80 international film festivals, conferences and universities including: DOCUWEEK Theatrical Release, Montreal World FF, IDFA in Amsterdam, Edinburgh Intl’ FF, NYU, Harvard University (Unaff), The New School in New York, Lincoln Center (HRWFF) and for diverse audiences in countries such as the US, Sweden, Pakistan, Chile, Germany, France and many others. View festivals info In 2006, Bukin’s Angel’s Fire earned top honours as the winner of the distinguished short documentary award by [ida] the International Documentary Association at the IDA AWARDS in Los Angeles. Marcelo has created award-winning strategic film campaigns for many international foundations and clients, usually combining innovative commercials with short promos, feature length documentaries or a series of stories. Recently, Bukin produced and directed the campaign for the Fabretto Children’s Foundation, which includes the feature documentary Dreaming Nicaragua.*Newly completed and about to start its Festival run. Shot entirely in Central America, Dreaming intimately portrays the lives of talented children submerged in complex social realities. Marcelo has been awarded the NYSCA New York State Council on the Arts grant for this project. Marcelo works as a Director, Producer & Shooter of fully bilingual, English-Spanish, high quality and entertaining media. |