Israel Adrián Caetano

Adrián Caetano
Born	Israel Adrián Caetano 1969 (age 47–48) Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality	Uruguayan-Argentine
Occupation	film director, producer, screenplay writer

Israel Adrián Caetano (born 1969 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.

He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times, he obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

At age of sixteen, his family moved to Córdoba, Argentina. When he was older, he shot several short videos including Visite Carlos Paz, and Calafate.

In 1995, Caetano won a prize in a script contest he entered. The money won allowed him to film the short Down Hill (Cuesta abajo), his first work filmed in 35mm. Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998, co-directed with Bruno Stagnaro) followed. The film was well received at the various film festivals where it screened.

In 1996, Caetano won a Media Arts Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.

Caetano also directs television commercial and programs.

In 2005, Caetano returned to Uruguay to shoot the mini-series Uruguayos Campeones for television.

Film critic Manohla Dargis, writing for the Los Angeles Times, calls Caetano "a leading figure in the new Argentine cinema." She notes that Caetano's first feature, the 1998 release of Pizza, Beer, Cigarettes, helped jump-start a "New Argentine Cinema."

His first full-length film, Bolivia (2001) was well received by film critics, even though it took three years to produce the film due to budget constraints.

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