Abstract
Argentine-born Federico Hidalgo, his Mexican-born wife Paulina Robles and many collaborators including his former students and fellow professors at Concordia University have made four fiction feature films together over the last 10 years. Only the first of these, Un amore silencio/A Silent Love (2004) has gained international exhibition and recognition. This is unfortunate because Hidalgo’s films present a highly original and stylistically creative approach to the problems faced by Latin American immigrants and visitors to Canada/Québec, including their spatial orientation.
Highlights
Argentine-born film director Federico Hidalgo, together with his Mexicanborn producer/script writer wife, Paulina Robles have developed an interesting body of fiction feature films, mostly made close to home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that explore the situations of exile and multiculturalism
A degree in Political Science that Hidalgo had begun at York University, was completed at Concordia University (1990), and while doing this he began acting in student films, and from 1990 to 1997 he was firstly an undergraduate a graduate student in film production, receiving BFA and MFA degrees from the Cinema Department at Concordia
The film production and animation programs within the Faculty of Fine Arts tend to encourage individual creativity, enabling Hidalgo to find his own “voice,” while he was there. He made a number of 16mm short films during this time in Canada and Mexico, including his first, second and thirdyear undergraduate, prize-winning projects, Walker (1991, 10 min.), The Case of Danny Lester (1992, 20 min.), and Another City (1993, 25 min.) in Montreal, and a co-directed documentary film in Mexico City, Lotería (1996, 22 min.) Another City is remarkable for a student film, featuring fine acting performances and high quality black and white cinematography, editing and sound design
Summary
Argentine-born film director Federico Hidalgo, together with his Mexicanborn producer/script writer wife, Paulina Robles have developed an interesting body of fiction feature films, mostly made close to home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that explore the situations of exile and multiculturalism. While he was still a student, Hidalgo was teaching English as a Second Language at McGill University, and even before he received his MFA he was employed as a Part-time instructor of undergraduate Film Studies in the Concordia University School of Cinema.
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