TIFF 2009 Viral Day 6: Adrián Biniez’s Gigante

The world tour for Gigante which began at the Berlin int. Film Festival in february landed in Toronto with a really receptive audience mostly filled with curious South American rooted cinephiles. Adrián Biniez, the Argentinean born director who works out of Montevideo, Uruguay (and is good buddies with Pablo Stoll who was also present in the audience) has a bright future ahead of him . He was on hand to answer questions relating to filming on an extremely low budget, to the casting of the film’s lead to the controversial (almost comical) tone that Biniez chooses in treating the subject of stalking, which is refers to as a “healthy” kind of stalking. I was glad to see that the charismatic helmer didn’t deflect the attention from the seriousness of this oversized, heavy metal loving man changing the fate of an after hours cleaning lady in a supermarket. Here’s the video with plenty of backstory.