Enrique Piñeyro (born December 9, 1956, in Genoa, Italy)[1] is an Argentine-Italian ex airline pilot turned film actor, producer, crash analyst, aeronautical physician, film director, and screenplay writer, working partly in Argentina. Piñeyro owns Aquafilms, a film production company in Argentina.

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Enrique Piñeyro
Enrique Piñeyro, 2015
Born	(1956-12-09) 9 December 1956 (age 65) Genoa, Italy
Nationality	Argentine-Italian
Occupation	Actor, director, producer, aeronautical physician, crash investigator, screenplay writer

Biography

Piñeyro was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1956. His mother, Marcela, was a member of the billionaire Rocca family, which controls the industrial conglomerate Techint.[2] Piñeyro graduated as a doctor and went on to become an airline pilot in 1988 in Argentina, where he worked at LAPA, becoming an experienced pilot (ATP certificate, Boeing 737 co-pilot, Saab 340 captain). Two months prior to the infamous LAPA flight 3142 crash, Piñeyro voiced his concerns about LAPA's safety policy. Following the plane crash, Piñeyro became somewhat of a public figure in retelling his experiences working at LAPA, which subsequently went out of business.

Piñeyro, who had already acted in films five times, went on to star a sixth time in his directorial debut, Whisky Romeo Zulu in 2004 – a partially biographical film where he recounted his battle against LAPA's safety policy before the accident. The film was generally well received, and spun a sequel of sorts, Air Force, Incorporated, a documentary that criticized the fact that in Argentina the air traffic is controlled by the Air Force. Following the film's release, the national government decided to separate the Argentine Air Force from commercial air traffic, which is now responsibility of the Secretary of Transport.

Piñeyro has been dubbed "the Michael Moore of Argentina" due to his public criticism of specific government corruption, and the favorable results attained from his filmmaking.^{[citation needed]} He has recently written and performed in a play called "Volar es humano, aterrizar es divino" in which he performs, together with two more actors, aeronautical sequences combined with stand-up comedy. The show has seen 10 seasons of success at prestigious Teatro Maipo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This show also ran at Teatros del Canal, Madrid, Spain in 2019 and 2020.[3]

He is also the co-founder of Innocence Project Argentina, an NGO belonging to the Innocence Network, which is "dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted, working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions".[4][5]

Acting filmography

• Alambrado (1991) a.k.a. Barbed Wire
• Olympic Garage (1999)
• Waiting for the Messiah (2000)
• Sons and Daughters (2001)
• Dormir al sol (2003)
• Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004)
• Northeast (2005)
• Air Force, Incorporated (2006)
• Hotel Tívoli (2007)
• El Rati Horror Show (2009)

Directing filmography

• Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004)
• Air Force, Incorporated (2006)
• Bye Bye Life (2008)
• El Rati Horror Show (2009)

Theatre

"Volar es humano, aterrizar es divino" (2014 to 2020)

References

External links

• Enrique Piñeyro at IMDb
• Aqua films Official website
• Enrique Piñeyro at Cinenacional.com (in Spanish) (archive)

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