Acclaimed Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky, 47, died in his sleep on Wednesday in Sao Paulo of what appears to have been a heart attack.

Bielinsky was, after directing only two feature length films, one of Argentina’s most acclaimed directors, most notable for his film Nueve Reinas:

…winner of 21 international awards, and later for the police story El Aura (2005), for which he had just won six awards at the Cóndor de Plata awards ceremony.

According to Argentine newspaper La Voz del Interior, Fabian’s death was discovered by colleagues:

According to reports by those close to him, the director had dinner Wednesday night with some colleagues and then went to sleep in this hotel room.

Since he had not come down yesterday morning to continue work, his colleagues asked hotel staff to open his hotel room and there they found him dead in bed. He had died in his sleep.

Those close to Bielinsky were shocked at this death, since the only prior health problem he had was hypertension.

Related: Reel.com interview with Fabian Bielinsky

Via / Cine estrenos and La Voz del Interior

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