A Useful Life

A Useful Life Spanish La vida til is a 2010 Uruguayan drama film about the love of film, directed by Federico Veiroj and shot in blackandwhite. The film was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist.

Although the story is fiction, Cinemateca Uruguaya, which celebrated 50 years in 2012, is besieged by financial problems, and its director Manuel Martnez Carril agreed to play himself in the film.

Source: Wikipedia