"Greca's Hat" / "El sombrero de Greca"
The life and the work of Alcides Greca

(para la versión castellana, cliquee aquí)

Producer C. Manuel Castro
Director Mario Piazza
Photography Director Héctor Molina
Editing and sound Ernesto Figge
Executive Producer Miren Martinetti
Director Asistant Cristian Arriaga
Art Director Guillermo Haddad
Historians/Advisers Pedro Munich, Inés Santa Cruz, Héctor Cepol and Alcides Greca Jr.

An illustrous and many-sided santafesinean born in San Javier on February 13th, 1889, Alcides Greca was a writer, lawyer, journalist, a jurist expert in municipal right, university professor and pioneering film director with his semi-documentary feature "El último malón" (The last indian rebelion, 1918). His work is imbued by a noticeable sense of justice and freedom. He died in Rosario city, on April 16th, 1956.

Greca's Hat is a project of a fictionalized documentary (doc/fic) to be produced during year 2002.
* Winner of one of the production prizes of the National Institute for the Cinema and Audiovisual Arts -INCAA- in a contest for telefilm projects from the provinces (Resolution # 1308/01).
* Declared of Cultural Interest by the Subsecretary of Culture of the Province of Santa Fe (Disposition Nº 363, 11/13/01).
* Declared of Municipal Interest by the H. Municipal Council of Rosario (Decret Nº 20.779, 11/29/01).

The project's background
In 1988, Master in Social Communication C. Manuel Castro carried out a research about the film by Alcides Greca "El último malón", through a grant of the National Fund for the Arts / FNA.
In 1995/96 he developed a research about the life and the work of Alcides Greca, through a grant of the Subsecretary of Culture of Santa Fe.

Contact:
Mario Piazza
Pje. Cajaraville 165, 6º A
2000 Rosario, Argentina
phone: 54-341-424.4941 / fax: 54-341-447.9874
mariopiazza
http://rosariarte.com.ar/cachilo/piazza.htm