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Adrian Biniez wrote more than twenty scripts that did not like before finding that has led him to compete with large cinema in Berlin Film Festival.

"Giant," his first feature film is a romantic comedy about a night security guard who falls in love with an employee cleaning a hypermarket. One of only two Latin American bands to be measured at the Berlinale for the Golden Bear, in February.


"It's the first experience of undertaking a feature film and it is a matter of satisfaction that has been designated for the Berlin festival," he told the AP the Argentine rookie 34 years on Wednesday, two days before leaving the Old Continent.

Based in Uruguay for five years, then Biniez was not connected with the cinema.


"I started as a screenwriter for the film Taxi," said the director, who has two films to his credit: "Total availability" (2008) and "8 hours" (2006).

"This idea of 'Giant' I did four years ago, after several failed attempts to write more than 20 scripts that I liked," he continued. "This script was the last, so I did the reverse journey: I started almost last."


Although the title of the film is equal to the 1956 classic starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean and Carroll Baker, the plot is not related.

The "Giant" of Biniez, with the performances of the Uruguayan Horacio Camandulle and Leonor Svarcas, remains a guard who did not shy are encouraged to approach the woman who attracts him and begins to spy when you leave work.


The plot takes place in a climate of that supermarket where there was reduction of personnel. It is a strange and tense climate that we live, "said Biniez. And the final, said with mischief, "save me".

"Giant" was filmed in April last year in Montevideo neighborhood of El Prado, La Aguada and the center of the capital.


He won a place in Berlin after being seen and accepted by a selection committee of the festival, which will compete with 17 other productions, some led by stars such as Renee Zellweger, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer and Judi Dench.

"Beyond as you can go with the film festival in Berlin ... I find it very gratifying that this first feature may appear to compete," said Biniez. "Certainly if there is an extra (a prize) far better," he said smiling.


The tape, an Argentine-Uruguayan co-German, could begin to show in May in the region.

The Berlin Film Festival, in its 59th edition, runs from 5 to February 15.