EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN director Ana Piterbarg

Ana Piterbarg is an

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film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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best known for her 2012 thriller ''

Everybody Has a Plan ''Everybody Has a Plan'' ( es, Todos tenemos un plan, links=no) is a 2012 crime thriller film directed by Ana Piterbarg and starring Viggo Mortensen and Soledad Villamil. It was written by Anna Cohan and Ana Piterbarg. It is an Argentine-Spanish-G ...

''.

Career

Piterbarg had had the idea to approach actor

Viggo Mortensen Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. R (; born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, musician, and multimedia artist. Born and raised in the State of New York to a Danish father and American mother, he also lived in Argentin ...

to star in ''

'' but was unable to reach him through his agents. Upon meeting him randomly in

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while picking her son up from swimming lessons she pitched her film to Mortensen who eventually agreed to not only star in the film but produce it as well. The film premiered at the

2012 Toronto International Film Festival The 37th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 16, 2012. TIFF announced the films that were accepted on August 21, 2012. On its 37th edition the TIFF included a 2 ...

. In 2014 Piterbarg announced her follow-up to ''Everybody Has a Plan'' would be a black and white experimental film titled '' Alptraum'' about a playwright descending into paranoia who is haunted by a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Piterbarg, Ana Living people Argentine women film directors Year of birth missing (living people)