Nobody’s Watching (2007): Film screening & discussion with José Negroni Circerchia, PhD. & Argentine director Julia Solomonoff

Casa Argentina de Houston is delighted to co-sponsor this event!

Nobody’s Watching (2017) tells the tale of how destiny becomes the motivator of any immigrant–in this case, Argentine actor Nico, who leaves all that he knows behind and builds a life in another country. With the passage of time, that life takes many twists and turns. He thinks he is going to be a prominent actor and winds up a nanny. Ultimately Nico rejects what he sees as a passive existence. He leaves his dream behind, deciding that it’s not worth staying in New York, where he’s misunderstood, devalued and disrespected in nearly every situation he endures. A conversation with critically influential Argentine director Julia Solomonoff will follow the screening. We will explore how her master work, Nobody’s Watching, deals with the invisibility of immigrants and their broken dreams after being confronted with the reality of modern-day America. In this case, the film’s protagonist confronts the possibility that he may be dispensable, unnecessary, a ghost. In this film about identity, we’ll dissect who is an immigrant. What roots does the immigrant have? And are they tenuous, especially if the country doesn’t recognize them? Julia Solomonoff is a director, screenwriter and producer. A graduate of Columbia University, she has taught film classes at her alma mater, as well as at the New York Film Academy, Cambridge University, NYU and FEMIS in France. She has studied under Water Salles, Carlos Sorín and Luis Puenzo. Her chef d’ouevre is Sisters (2005), which premiered in Toronto. In 2007, she produced Cocalero, a documentary by Alejandro Landes about Bolivian president Evo Morales during the 2005 elections in that country, which premiered at Sundance. El último verano de La Boyita (2009) was her second film and competed for best film at the Bafici Festival in Buenos Aires

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