There are very few icons in Argentine culture capable of appealing to both popular and elitist tastes. Leonardo Favio was undoubtedly one of them. An unseasonable Peronist attached to the liturgy of his land, the director, born in the province of Mendoza, was and artist at every craft. a Renassaince man, but above all, a filmmaker. This is how "Favio: Chronicle of a Director" recaptures him, as a man of film who fed from radio, acting, music and painting in order to build up the handful of rhapsodies with which he adorned argentinean cinematography

Favio: Chronicle of a Director

An approach to the vast and vital cinema of Leonardo Favio. In Latin America, Leonardo Favio was soon recognized as a singer. Not many, outside of his native Argentina, know him as a filmmaker. And yet it is precisely in the cinema where Favio reveals the best of his talent, becoming an author as unclassifiable as he is necessary.