Jorge Gaggero graduated in film studies from the Centro de Experimentación y Realización Cinematografica in Buenos Aires in 1994. While working as a producer and director at Edicion Plus, he was a finalist for the 1995 Emmy Award in the category of Best Foreign Documentary. Gaggero wrote and directed Ojos de fuego (1996), which won awards for Best Short Subject Script at the National Film Institute and Best Short Film at the Sin Cortes Film Festival. The film was distributed in Europe, Australia, Latin America and the United States. Gaggero was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1998 and obtained his masters degree in direction from the American Film Institute. As part of the program, he wrote and directed the shorts The Secret Sea and A Piece of Earth. His feature writing and directing debut, Live-in Maid (Cama adentro, 2004), won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best Latin American Actress Prize at the Brussels Film Festival.
MFF Karlovy Vary
