Director: Joshua Dylan Mellars Producers: Joshua Dylan Mellars, Sofia Englund
Description:
Former
political prisoner Hector Marteau survived The Dirty War which saw
30,000 people numbered among the “Disappeared.” In Stolen
Youth, the Buenos Aires resident re-visits the prison where he
was 'detained' forty years ago during the Argentine military
dictatorship.
Biography: Joshua
Dylan Mellars is an award-winning film director and producer
whose recent work includes Shakespeare in the Shadows, a
celebration of the 400th commemoration of the master dramatist’s
life and work, and The Land of Nod, a lyrical reimagining of
the classic Robert Louis Stevenson poem. Joshua recently completed
the documentary short Stolen Youth: Political Prisoner of the
Dictatorship, filmed in Argentina. His social documentary Building a Better Society premiered on PBS in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Previously, Joshua directed and produced a music
documentary trilogy comprised of Tango Illusions, Heaven’s
Mirror and Play like a Lion which screened at film
festivals and prestigious venues throughout the world from Berlin to
London, Oxford to Cambridge, County Cork to Miami, Houston to
Vancouver, Croatia to Italy, New York City to Monaco, Philadelphia to
the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (in conjunction with its
Maharaja exhibit, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London), the Indian Embassy in DC (in collaboration with the
Smithsonian) and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Before embarking on
his filmmaking career, Joshua filed stories for the BBC, UPI and NPR
from Caracas, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
