Enrique Piñeyro (actor)

Enrique Piñeyro (born 1956 in Genoa, Italy) is a pilot turned film actor, producer, film director, and screenplay writer, working partly in Argentina. Piñeyro and Verónica Cura own Aqua Films, a film production company in Argentina.

Biography

Piñeyro was born in Genoa, Italy, 1956. He graduated M.D. and went on to pilot for Argentine airline service in 1988, LAPA (currently out of service), becoming an experienced pilot (ATP certificate, Boeing 737 captain). Two months prior to the infamous LAPA flight 3142 crash, Piñeyro voiced his concerns about LAPA's safety policy. Following the plane crash, Piñeyro became somewhat of a public figure in retelling his experiences working at LAPA, which subsequently went out of service. Piñeyro, who had already acted in film five times, went on to star a sixth time in his directorial debut, "Whisky Romeo Zulu" in 2004 - a partially biographical film where he recounted his battle against LAPA's safety policy before the accident. The film was generally well received, and spun a sequel of sorts, "Fuerza aérea sociedad anónima", a documental that criticized not only LAPA, but airlines overall, which were owned by the Argentine Air Force and thus ineptly commanded. Following the film's release, the national government decided to separate the Argentine Air Force from commercial flights, which are now part of the Secretary of Transport.Piñeyro has been dubbed the Michael Moore of Argentina due to his public criticism of specific government corruption, and the favorable results attained from his filmmaking.

He is not related to another famous Argentine filmmaker, Marcelo Piñeyro.

Acting filmography

* "Alambrado" (1991) aka "Barbed Wire"
* "Garage Olimpo" (1999) aka "Garage Olimpo"
* "Esperando al Mesías" (2000) aka "Waiting for the Messiah"
* "Figli/Hijos" (2001) aka "Sons and Daughters"
* "Dormir al sol" (2003)
* "Whisky Romeo Zulu" (2004)
* "Nordeste" (2005)
* "Hotel Tívoli" (2007)

Directing filmography

* "Whisky Romeo Zulu" (2004)
* "Fuerza aérea sociedad anónima" (2006)

External links

* [http://www.aquafilms.com.ar/ingles/index_ingl.html Aqua films] official web site.
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