Martina Garello

Actress

The universe of Argentine independent cinema. The imposture. The unfulfilled dreams. Confinement, the capability for irony, the skill for comedy and the sagacity of UPA! Una película argentina (2007) are back, renovated, to explore the whims of a microworld still in turmoil. The UPA! gang is back, with isolation and new ways of malevolence and insolence, but also less in the background than up front, if you take a good look at the whole deal of true love for the craft. This twin sister perseveres opportunely in its unique flair for capturing the way of talking of its own world, a small private fiction in which independent cinema ruminates on its misfortune, its instability and its claudications while it gives arm strokes in the current to stay afloat without contemplations, but animated by a feeling of secret mercy that breathes with insistence between one scene and the other. The directors are now more experienced, but they're also wiser, and assume the compromise of exposing everything with a kamikaze smile.

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Upa! Una Pandemia Argentina: Lado A (2021)

Martina Garello is an Argentinean actress graduated from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. She also trained for acting with Nora Moseinco, and acting in front of the camera with Norma Angeleri. She is trained in contemporary dance with Jimena García Blaya and Cecilia Bazán, Tango with Carlos Rivarola, "Traditional forms of Japanese theater" with Andrew Tsubaki (University of Kansas. USA), and with Roberta Carreri from Odin Teather "The dance of Intention". In Theater she worked with the following directors: Ana Alvarado, Guillermo Arengo, Diego Cazabat, Joel Drut, among others. In films, she was directed by Tamae Garateguy, Santiago Giralt, Camila Toker, Daniel Rosenfeld, Benjamin Ávila, Juan Baldana, Federico Sosa, Roberto Porta, among others. In 2019 she was nominated for Best New Actress (Silver Condor Award from the Association of Film Critics of Argentina) for "Until you untie me", film by Tamae Garateguy. In 2021 she received the Special Mention as Best Actress for "My Dead Father, a comedy" by Roberto Porta within the framework of the Latin American Tucumán Film Festival.