FERNANDO CHIAPPUSSI
JOURNALIST
Buenos Aires - Argentina
Personal info
Age: 42
Studies: Literature, Mar del Plata National University, Argentina (incomplete).
Mother tongue: Spanish. Also speaks Portuguese.
Work history
-1991/92: free-lance writing.
-1993/95: writer and then music editor of the magazines Vos (en todas) (published weekly, for the teenage market) and Heavy Punk Rock (about music, published monthly), both by the publishing house Prisma.
-1996: free-lance writing.
-1997/98: editor at RTA (Radio y Televisión Argentina) magazine (published monthly, about TV and radio).
-1999/2004: writer at El Semanario del Comercio Exterior magazine (published weekly, economy oriented).
-2001/03: editor at Brújula magazine (published monthly, children oriented).
-2005/07: film programmer for the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI).
Free-lance writing
As a free-lance writer did articles about music, film and arts in general, which were published in Buenos Aires (Argentina) printed media (except where indicated), as follows:
- Video para Usted magazine (about film, 1991/97);
- Ambito Financiero newspaper (Arts section, 1994, 1996);
- El Expreso newspaper (Arts, 1996/97);
- Página/12 newspaper (Music, Culture; 1997/98);
- La Nación newspaper (Arts, Weekend Guide; 1997/98);
- Film magazine (about film, 1997/98; 2000/01);
- Lea magazine (about books, 2000/01);
- La Capital newspaper (from Rosario) (Culture, 2001);
- El País newspaper (from Montevideo, Uruguay) (Culture, 1998/2007).
Also did occasional writing for other magazines from Argentina, such as Clak, El Musiquero, Cerdos & Peces, Generación X, Hora Cero, Algo Más, Prensario. Ditto in other newspapers like La Razón and La Capital (from Mar del Plata).
Links to articles
Some articles I did for papers and magazines (most of them in Spanish only):
Interviews
-Film director Lodge Kerrigan (Sin Aliento newspaper, 4-22-06)
-Writer Jorge Asís (La Capital from Rosario, 6-17-01)
-Film critic J. Hoberman (Film OnLine, May 2001)
-Writer Brian W. Aldiss (La Capital from Rosario, 5-13-01)
-Writer Antonio Dal Masetto (La Capital from Rosario, 4-22-01)
-Film director Darren Aronofsky (Film OnLine N° 41, May 2000)
-Film director Tom DiCillo (La Nación, 05-27-98)
Profiles
-Film director Raya Martin (catalogue for the 2007 edition of the BAFICI)
-Film directors D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus (catalogue for the 2007 edition of the BAFICI)
-Film director Dave Markey (catalogue for the 2005 edition of the BAFICI)
-Jazz composer Thelonious Monk (El País, 11-26-04)
-Writer Ring Lardner (El País, 2-13-04)
-Composer Frank Zappa (El País, 2-6-04)
-Writer Sei Shônagon (El País, 2-20-02)
-Film director Steven Soderbergh (El País, 8-11-00)
-Film director Bob Rafelson (La Nación, 7-28-98)
-Film actress Diana Rigg (La Nación, 7-21-98)
-Film "director" Allan Smithee (La Nación, 12-28-97)
Features
-The withdrawal of art cinema from Corrientes Avenue, their traditional home in Buenos Aires (La Nación, 7-8-98)
-Feature films showcasing pop bands (La Nación, 2-13-98)
-Scandal in the major radio and TV speakers school of Argentina (RTA, February 1998)
-Sundance Film Festival (La Nación, 1-10-98)
-A brief history of Rolling Stone magazine (La Nación, 10-8-97)
-Music video clips in Argentina (La Nación, 6-23-97)
Contact
You can contact me by mail here.