Esteban Schroeder

He is a director, producer, president of the Uruguayan Association of Film Producers and Directors. Esteban Schroeder's career begins with CEMA: an experiment that brought together a group of young people who in the last years of the military dictatorship began to make films without any prior cinematographic training. They focused on social themes, they created their own exhibition circuit and thought that television could be a more accessible destination than the big screen. In 1993, they sought the experience of a filmmaker trained in Europe, Beatriz Flores Silva, and directed a television unit that ended up becoming a classic in local cinema, Pepita the Holster (1993). A short time later, CEMA closed its doors and Schroeder began his solo journey, producing, writing and directing The Vineyard, another attempt for the small screen that ended up being released theatrically and brought 80,000 viewers to the cinema. Two years later he received support to make his second feature film, Ma...