Marco Bechis
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
The son of a Chilean woman of Swiss-French origins and an Italian
father, he grew up in Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires. At the age of twenty
he was expelled from Argentina for political reasons: he landed in
Milan and there he lived throughout the 1980s, while also spending lots
of time in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He has been a school
teacher in Buenos Aires, a Polaroid photographer and a video-artist in
New York. He got to directing after going to the Albedo film school in
Milano in 1981. His first movie, Barbed Wire (1991), was screened in festivals in
Locarno, Madrid and Brussels. Bechis went on to direct Olympic Garage (1999), a film
that has been screened in a wide range of international festivals
including Cannes.
