Partner María Elena Walsh
Queer Places:
Cementerio de Olivos
Olivos, Partido de Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina
María Herminia Avellaneda (Pasteur, November 3, 1933 - Buenos Aires, July
7, 1997) was an Argentine filmmaker and producer of film and television, pioneer of the genre- and artistic director of the ATC network in 1984. In 1981 she received the Diploma of Merit of the Konex Awards as one of the five best television directors in Argentina.
She studied scenic art with Antonio Cunill Cabanellas and debuted as an assistant television director in 1955 in the program of the journalist Blackie. Between 1960 and 1990 she was responsible for remembered successes such as Doña Disparate and Bambuco, Alfonsina with Soledad Silveyra; the adaptation of La bahía del silencio by Eduardo Mallea with Federico Luppi and Jorge Marrale, Alta comedia, Pablo Neruda's version of Romeo y Julieta with Rodolfo Bebán and Evangelina Salazar in 1962, Señoritas alumnas with Selva Alemán, Marilina Ross, Teresa Blasco and Virginia Lago, My mom loves me with Graciela Borges and Las vueltas de la vida by her partner María Elena Walsh with whom she hosted the program La cigarra accompanied by Susana Rinaldi with whom she devised and directed her first one-woman show Dale nomás. In 1971 she filmed her first feature film: Let's Play in the World, on the screenplay by María Elena Walsh with Perla Santalla, Jorge Mayor, Eva Franco, Zulema Katz, Virginia Lago and Norman Briski. In 1980 she made her second, Rosa de lejos with Leonor Benedetto (film version of a successful telenovela) and, in 1989, Pasión, a French-Argentine co-production. In 1982 she directed the show Hoy como ayer, on texts by María Elena Walsh interpreted by Susana Rinaldi at the disappeared Odeón Theater. In 1994 she directed several units of the renowned Alta comedia cycle produced and broadcast by the screen of Canal 9.
She died of cancer at the age of 63.
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