Marcos Mereles Explained

Marcos Mereles
Birth Place:Argentina
Notable Works:All Is Vanity

Marcos Mereles is an Argentine filmmaker, best known for his feature film debut All Is Vanity.

Career

Mereles’ early short films have been screened in festivals like Nashville Film Festival,[1] Cleveland Film Festival,[2] East End Film Festival,[3] Fantasia Film Festival,[4] among others.

He was nominated for a Méliès d'Argent at the 33rd Imagine Film Festival for his short film De Dode Spreekt.[5]

His feature debut, All Is Vanity, premiered at the 65th BFI London Film Festival.[6] [7] The film received a limited theatrical release in the United Kingdom in 2022.[8] [9]

Personal life

He currently lives in London, England.[10]

Influences

Mereles participated in the 2022 Sight and Sound Directors' Poll. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice, his selections were: 8½ (1963), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Pulp Fiction (1994), GoodFellas (1990), Amarcord (1973), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Barry Lyndon (1975), Eraserhead (1977), Citizen Kane (1941) and There Will Be Blood (2007).[11]

Filmography

Film

!Year!Title!Director!Writer!Producer!Distributor
2021All Is VanityVerve Pictures

Short films

Awards and nominations

!Award!Date of Ceremony!Category!Film!Result!Ref.
Fargo Film Festival25 March 2023Best Narrative FeatureAll Is Vanity[12]
New Renaissance Film Festival1 October 2023Best Director[13]
Capri Hollywood International Film Festival2 January 2023Capri Special Award for Best Feature[14]
BFI London Film Festival17 October 2021Audience Award[15]
Cleveland Film Festival5 April 2020FilmSlam Competition AwardNevezuchiy
Fantasia Film Festival2 August 2018International Short Film CompetitionDe Dode Spreekt
Nashville Film Festival19 May 2018Graveyard Shift Competition Award
Indianapolis Film Festival6 May 2018World Cinema Award[16]
Manchester Film Festival4 March 2018Best Experimental Film[17]
Imagine Film Festival22 April 2017Méliès d'Argent Award

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prickett . Macon . The 49th Annual Nashville Film Festival Announces The 2018 Shorts In Competition Selections . 2023-01-27 . BroadwayWorld . en.
  2. Web site: Unlucky - Cleveland International Film Festival :: March 22 - April 1, 2023 . 2023-06-07 . Cleveland Film . en.
  3. Web site: I Think You're Freaky and I Like You a Lot! . https://web.archive.org/web/20191119005000/https://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/i-think-youre-freaky-and-i-like-you-a-lot/ . 2019-11-19 . 2023-06-07 . East End Film Festival . en-US.
  4. Web site: Danielle . Tori . Fantasia Film Festival 2018: Small Gauge Trauma Horror Shorts . 2023-01-27 . PopHorror . en-US.
  5. Web site: Febre . Arnold le . 2017-02-08 . Imagine Film Festival maakt eregast en korte filmprogramma’s bekend . 2023-06-16 . Entertainment Business . nl.
  6. Web site: Dalton . Ben . BFI London Film Festival unveils 2021 programme for “full force” hybrid edition . 2022-11-20 . ScreenDaily . en.
  7. Web site: Ali . Umar . London Film Festival 2021: All Is Vanity Review . 2023-02-01 . The Upcoming.
  8. Web site: Phelan . Zehra . "What part do you regret the most?" Trailer lands for 'All is Vanity' . 2023-02-01 . HeyUGuys . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Dalton . Ben . UK-Ireland cinema release calendar: latest updates for 2022 . 2022-11-20 . ScreenDaily . en.
  10. Web site: Sirisuk . J.L. . All is Vanity: a movie about a fashion shoot gone weird . 2023-01-28 . HERO Magazine . en.
  11. Web site: Marcos Mereles BFI . 2023-11-06 . Sight & Sound.
  12. Web site: 2023-02-24 . FFF23 - Fargo Film Festival . 2024-09-29 . en-US.
  13. Web site: Winners - New Renaissance Film Festival London . 2024-09-29 . en.
  14. Web site: All Is Vanity - Capri, Hollywood Festival . 2024-09-29 . it.
  15. Web site: 2021-10-11 . All Is Vanity - BFI London Film Festival 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211011162651/https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=allisvanity&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= . 2021-10-11 . 2024-09-29 . BFI.
  16. 2018 Indy Film Fest: De Dode Spreekt (The Dead Man Speaks) . en-us . 2024-09-29 .
  17. Web site: 2018-03-08 . Highlights from MANIFF 2018 . 2024-09-29 . The Mancunion . en-GB.

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