Feeling Piazzolla

Get in-depth answers to your questions about Astor Piazzolla and the art of making the documentary. This virtual roundtable offers registrants exclusive access to the director, Pablo Rho; the screenwriter, Guillermo Stamponi, and Piazzolla's grandson, Daniel Villaflor, in an informal setting. Come prepared with questions.

Feeling Piazzolla, directed by Pablo Rho and based on Guillermo Stamponi's script, is a product of years of investigation, which presents little known material and is a unique opportunity to understand Piazzolla's music and its capacity to thrill the entire world. Pablo Rho and Guillermo Stamponi will talk about Feeling Piazzolla: motivation of the author of the idea and screenwriter, general lines of the work, testimonies to which it has been appealed, choice of music, journalistic and documentary research, places where it has been presented, and more. The importance of the maestro Astor Piazzolla in the history of Argentine music and significant characteristics of his personality will also be discussed, those related to his capacity for work, sensitivity, and strength to face adversity share by his grandson, Daniel Villaflor.

Pablo Rho: Sound and Image designer (University of Buenos Aires). Since 2002, Rho has managed the film producer Logicframe. He creates different works in cinema, television, and ENG services, as well as corporate videos and documentaries. He also has provided his expert services, assistance, and audiovisual products for TV stations such as TVE, CNN, NRK (Norway), RAI, TV3, Antena3, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) (United States), Teleamazonas, Globovision, ESPN, Fox Sports, Metro, NatGeo, America Sports, Telefé and Gourmet. He has worked with the Association of Cinematographic Journalists, Film Festivals, short films, and other different artistic international expositions. He also creates video clips, theatrical and sports events, and concerts with several cameras, as well as videos of many events to multiple screens, with different sets and mapping.

Rho is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, secondary schools, and master classes in TV, technology, and photography. He has received awards and mentions for some of his short films, feature films, documentaries, and experimental works, including a selection in the International Film of Cannes.

Guillermo Stamponi: With a degree in music, musicology specialty, Stamponi graduated from the Catholic University of Argentina. He has published With a bandoneón in the hands, A semblance of Daniel Binelli (2013), The Institute Superior of Art of the Theatre Colon (2016), Semblances of musicians in Argentina (2018) and, coauthor of Juan Pedro Esnaola. His musical work: Analytical-themed Catalog (2002) and Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra 1946-2006 (2007). He has collaborated on Camerata Bariloche: 30 years of music around the world by Oleg Kotzarew (1998), the Dictionary of Spanish and Hispanic American Music, published in Madrid by the General Society of Authors and Publisher, the Großes Sängerlexikon published in Germany (2003) and Konex Awards: Who is Who (2009). Some of his articles were published in Music Today, the magazine of the Institute of Musicological Research “Carlos Vega,” magazine Theatre Colon, All is history, and so on. He has written texts for record labels Tradition (Argentina) and Quindecim Recordings (Mexico). He is a doctor in International Relations.

Daniel Villaflor Piazzolla, grandson of Astor Piazzolla, Vice President of AstorPiazzolla Foundation and General Coordinator of "Piazzolla100". Postgraduate in Direction and Management of Non-Profit Organizations at the San Andrés University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the Astor Piazzolla Foundation, Daniel is in charge of the planning and direction of cultural projects, and the design and management of projects with