From shared screenplays and other ideas. Interview with Inés Bortagaray

Abstract

More than fifteen years ago, young filmmakers made an unexpected turnaround in the Uruguayan film context. Inés Bortagaray, key figure in the current cultural scene of the country, was part of that phenomenon when being a student of Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Uruguay, shared classes, conversations about cinema and good moments of learning with a group of friends who would disrupt the establishment of national cinema consolidated for years by the conservative film critic. Inés Bortagaray talks to us about her personal and artistic training with that group of friends, but also of the meaning of the screenplay, of her creative process in solitude and in the company of the director or other scriptwriters, and finally, shared authorship for the sake of something greater: cinema.