NYU Buenos Aires Tango and Mass Culture Professor and Princeton Phd, Edgardo Dieleke, was nominated for “Premios Sur” Best Documentary Award for his feature-length film La forma exacta de las islas (The exact shape of the islands). The Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, presided by Oscar winner José Campanella, will grant its “Premio Sur” Awards on December 2014.
Professor Dieleke’s documentary tells the story of Julieta Vitullo’s trips to the Malvinas/Falklands islands. Initially travelling to complete her PhD thesis on how the islands were represented in Argentine literature and cinema, she meets two Argentine war veterans who return to the islands after 25 years. Julieta changes her trip plans to film and experience the islands with them.
La forma exacta de las islas brings a new perspective to the Malvinas/Falklands conflict, putting aside the war between England and Argentina in 1982, to explore the human side of the subject. The documentary shows emotional consequences, post-conflict sentiments and beautiful landscapes.
As part of a tour to England and Spain to show the documentary at universities, Professor Dieleke was invited to do a preview at NYU London in February 2014. His film was also selected to be presented and discussed at IMS, a Brazilian Non-Profit Cultural Institution, by film curator José Carlos Avellar.