Juan Villegas was born in Argentina in 1971, he is a director, screenwriter, producer and has also worked as an assistant director and editor in both short films and feature films.
He studied film direction at the Universidad del Cine, where he currently works as a teacher.
During his first period as a director, he made the short films “Rutas y veredas” (1995), “2 en 1 auto” (1998), “A happy afternoon” and “Hugo” (2002).
In 2001, he premiered his debut feature, “Saturday,” at the Venice International Film Festival, where he received great recognition from international critics.
In 2005, he scripted and directed the feature film based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Di Benedetto “The Suicides”, a film that opened the 20th edition of the BAFICI.
As a producer he worked on feature films; “A Week Alone”, “Escuela Normal”, “The Third Shore” by Celina Murga, “Miss”, by Robert Bonomo, “Villegas”, by Gonzalo Tobal; “Diarios de Mendoza”, by Lucía Mendoza and “Días extraños”, by Juan Sebastián Quebrada, among others.
In 2010, he co-directed the feature film “Ocio”, alongside Alejandro Lingenti, based on the novel of the same name by Fabián Casas.
In 2015, he made the documentary titled “Victoria”, based on the portrait of this artist's life over a period of one year.
In 2018, he premiered “Las Vegas” again at the BAFICI, a romantic comedy.
An account of the life and work of the charismatic Spanish writer Terenci Moix (1942-2003).
The venerable VHS may have surprises. A strange spell captures the protagonists, who are friends, and submerges them straight into the world of the most implausible Argentine cop films. An amazing flow of images lost, forgotten and recovered whose consumption threatens to become addictive.
By chance, Martin and Laura travel to Villa Gesell at the same time. They are not together anymore but 18 years ago they conceived their son, Pablo, there. Soon, situations as absurd as they are touching will arise from their encounter. Juan Villegas ventures into comedy and is back at Bafici with a nostalgic, intimate film.
Robert Law is 30 years old and lives with the obsession of giving his first kiss and breaking a world record. While taking care of a house in the suburbs of Buenos Aires temporarily, he runs into Laura who accidentally steps on Robert's hand, and unbeknownst to her he decides to follow her through the streets and they strike up a strange friendship, deciding to beat the world record with her.
Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)
Victoria Morán is 36 years old. She has a family, a husband, a daughter, dogs and a house. And Victoria sings wonderfully well. She sings tangos and songs from other regions of Latin America. This is the portrait of a year of her life. Singing and life as part of an indivisible universe. A reflection on the complex links between money and art, between the intimate and the professional.
Student council elections are about to be held at a school in Parana, Argentina and the two main parties are putting the finishing touches to their campaigns. As they present their positions to the student body, all the elements of political grandstanding are present and correct: quibbling over slogans, circular rhetoric, the benefits of an attractive candidate and the inevitable final mudslinging.
Maria is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in an upscale gated suburb. Maria's parents are going out of town for a week, and rather than leave her with relatives or hire a babysitter, Maria is put in charge of looking after her little sister Sofia, with housekeeper Esther serving as a nominal adult authority figure, though for the most part she lets Maria and the others do what they please. With only their parents bedroom off-limits, Maria and Sofia have the run of the house, and soon they and their friends Facundo, Quique, Rodrigo and Timmy are spending their days exploring the place. As the kids begin creating their own rules to run counter to the ones their absent parents set down, Esther brings a young relative, Fernando, to play with them, and the privileged kids begin to get a notion of the ways of the outside world.
Daniel is a journalist who is commissioned to write an article based on a photograph of a presumed suicide. As he begins his investigation, he meets Marcela, the enigmatic photographer assigned to him as a colleague, with whom he has never had a relationship before, and with whom he slowly begins to fall in love.
One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, unsuccessfully looking for a glance that changes something or a new sensation that reveals them some sense. A couple used to their common tediousness, a girl who has already decided she wants to be alone, his boyfriend who does not know how to deal with that, a famous actor who does not seem to feel comfortable anywhere and a girl who pretends to get fun without realizing she's always bored.