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EL CANDIDATO

THE CANDIDATE

By Daniel HENDLER

Second film - Completed 2016

Martín is a charismatic, brilliant and committed leader ... This is the central idea that will launch Martin Marchand’s political campaing. Martin’s advisers and creative team, meet at Martín´s country-house to restlessly design his profile. However, some of them have arrived to blow up the candidat

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Second film
- Countries
- URUGUAY, ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Daniel HENDLER
- Writer(s)
- Daniel HENDLER
- Cast
- Diego DE PAULA, Ana KATZ, Matías SINGER, Alan SABBAGH, José Luis ARIAS, César TRONCOSO, Roberto SUÁREZ, Fernando AMARAL, Chiara HOURCADE, Verónica LLINÁS
- Producer(s)
- Micaela SOLÉ (Cordón Films), Pablo UDENIO (HC FILMS)
- Synopsis
- At the age of 50, Martin Marchand is not satisfied with his status as an entrepreneur and decides to accept a political candidacy, betting on his technical control of the new trends in communication, and hollowed out slogans as "independence" or "transparency".
  Martin convenes a group of technicians and advisers to stay during a weekend at his country- house to design his profile as leader.
  However, some members of the team seem more interested in gathering information on Marchand´s bussiness than in the political campaign for which they were hired.
  A musician, a graphic designer, an agency coordinator, a media consultant, an executive operator, a personal assistant, and various advertising creatives, are all seemingly aligned in the project; but Martin struggles to find a reliable mirror on which to locate his image.
  Focusing on the audiovisual campaign rather than on his ideology, the team create Martin´s profile as if it were a fictional character; and under the logic of fiction, the candidate’s personal threads start to unfold.
- Beginning of shooting
- Mar 01, 2014