Omar Parada

Omar Gregorio Parada (1922-1987) was an Uruguayan filmmaker. I was member of Cine Universitario del Uruguay (1972-1975) and of Group Film Montevideo. In Buenos Aires, I have contributed to the organization and programming of the Cinema Club, Friends of Cinemateca Argentina. Parada''s work is representative of Uruguayan cinema during the period 1950-1970. I wrote and directed five films, documentaries and fiction shorts in 16 mm, including A Holiday (A holiday) in 1952 and the Topic of Illness and Death (Topic of illness and death) in 1953. Miguelete: Heads and Tails of a Stream (Miguelete: heads and tails of a stream, 1952) is considered one of the first documentary about contaminated water in Uruguay. His science fiction film Maybe Tomorrow (Maybe tomorrow, 1966) was awarded the best film of Uruguay in 1966. Montevideo Today (Montevideo hoy, 1968-1972), a documentary film about the political and social reality of Uruguay, was taken by the military dictatorship (1973-1985) and is now lost.