Carlos Olguin-Trelawny
Carlos Olguin-Trelawny (born on December 27, 1944 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
He started studying filmmaking at the ProDeo University in Rome. He also studied with masters such as Jean-Luc Godard in Paris. His first professional work was as second-assistant director to Academy Winner Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk for the 1970 film Waterloo. When he moved to New York, he studied screenwriting with Paul Schrader and acting with William Hickey at the Herbert Berghof Studio.
In 1974 he took two sabbatical years and journeyed to the Orient. He chronicled his life-changing experience in a book called "Mundos sin campanarios" ("Worlds without belltowers").
He returned to Argentina where he wrote scripts for television and worked as an assistant director in films. His opera prima, the 1988 film "A Dos Aguas," won a Special Mention at the prestigious 40th Locarno International Film Festival.
In 1991, Olguin-Trelawny moved to Los Angeles. There, he studied screenwriting at UCLA, directed shorts and documentaries, wrote for Telemundo/NBC and several screenplays and experimented with digital art.
In April 2007 he moved back to his home town Buenos Aires. His original screenplay "La carta" (The Letter) will be produced by Ricardo Freixá Cine late 2012 in Argentina.
As of November 2011 Olguin-Trelawny is Executive Producer of "Vidas de película", a TV series produced by D.A.C. (Director's Guild of Argentina) about in-depth interviews to living film directors from Argentina's golden "60s Generation" like Manuel Antín, José Martínez Suárez, Pino Solanas, Simón Feldman, Octavio Getino, Leonardo Fabio, Héctor Olivera and others.
