Leandro Listorti (Argentina)

Leandro Listorti is an artist, filmmaker, producer, programmer and archivist. He works in the fringes of archive footage and experimental practices. He is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee and has received the Jan Vrijman Fund for his first film Los jóvenes muertos (Dead Youth). He served as film programmer at BAFICI Film Festival for ten years, he was one of the founders of ARCA (Regional Amateur Film Archive) and since 2015 he has been in charge of the Technical Coordination and Film Programming of the Buenos Aires Film Museum. In 2018 he was artist-in-residence at the Living Archive (Arsenal Berlin) and in 2019 participated at the Caring for Artists' Films workshop at MoMA. In 2016 he founded MaravillaCine together with Paula Zyngierman, a production company based in Buenos Aires. He taught classes at the Universidad del Cine, Untref, Unsam, UnPaz and at EICTV (Cuba). His first fiction project The Shadow of the Fishes received the Hubert Bals Fund 2022 for Script and Project Development. And his project A Certain Civilization was selected as the Best Pitched Project at the Camp4Science Academia Film Olomuc (Czech Republic). That same year he was selected to be part of the Joaquin Jordá Residence organized by Museo Reina Sofía, Doclisboa and FIDMarseille. In 2023 he was selected as Fellow at the Flaherty Seminar and in the EAVE Puentes international training program. His films have been shown internationally in places like BFI London, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, IDFA, Filmoteca Española, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Harvard Film Archives, Jeonju International Film Festival, National Art Gallery, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Museum of Moving Image among others.