1. The Reuters link is in Portuguese, not Spanish.

2. The press will point out the coincidence of his dying in the same week that Bielinsky passed away - ad nauseam.

3. What a shame. One of the most promising young talents to come out of Latin America in recent years. After Whisky's ingenious appropriation and transplanting of the deadpan Kaurismaki style for the Uruguayan context, I was eager to see what Rebella and his collaborator came up with next.

Thank you for the correction, FilmFan1. I've tweaked the entry.

And if I understood the Google translation of the El País story at all, it does sound like he and Pablo Stoll were working on their next project.

This is the translation from EL PAIS

JUAN PABLO REBELLA PASSED AWAY

Uruguayan filmmaker Juan Pablo Rebella died last night, informed this morning police officials.

Close friends of co-writer and co-director of "Whisky" and "25 watts" confirmed to this newspaper that Mr. Rebella committed suicide. This morning, Montevideo Police Department officials were taking testimonies of witnesses who found the body.

Near the Police Department, EL PAIS witnessed Mr. Pablo Stoll, Mr. Rebella's partner, with his eyes full of tears. Currently, Stoll and Rebella were writing the script for their next film.

Rebella' funeral response will be held at 2PM in Martinelli, Barrios Amorim & Canelones'.

Rolling Stone Argentina adds: Mr Rebella's body was found by his girlfriend, and also his friend and filmmaking partner Stoll.

Sorry the mispelling and Enlglish grammar mistakes.

Thank you again, Gonzalo.

Has there been any more information as to the suicide? How and why? I will be writing Rebello's obit and will be grateful for any personal info on him.

Sorry, Rebella not Rebello. That's the first thing I should get right.

Yes. Not in English sources, but Argentinan newspaper LA NACION and Uruguayan EL PAIS (only registered users, though you can check the same article here in my blog) added more details the day after.

In brief, Rebella comitted suicide on the Thursday night in his apartment at Pocitos neighboorhood, downtown Montevideo. At 1 AM (Friday) he was found by his longtime partner and "Whisky" co-director Pablo Stoll and Rebella's girlfriend (unnamed by news sources).

Rebella was sitting in a chair, laying in a table, in front of his PC, dead, with .32 gun next to his hand, over the floor. He shot the gun in the right side of his head. Over the table, there was three glasses, one empty cup, an a bottle of whisky at half.

At first, police officials wrote "suspicious dead" at the police file, but later was undoubtly labeled as a suicide.

According to CLARIN (Argentina), Rebella was working in his next script, and the already sent some pages to his producer. Also, Rebella said in his last days he was planning to assist to the Locarno Film Festival (in August).

Check the links for more details. Bye.

Thank you again. And again, terribly sad.

Thanks, Gonzalo. I suspect he was a manic depressive as he had, seemingly, everything to live for.

Hey, Ronald...
So you were working for The Guardian!
http://film.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/0,,1822852,00.html?gusrc=rss
Pleased to help. And guys, if you need any ayuda for your reports in Latin American cinema, well, will be no problem at all. Sometimes language barriers seems larger than they really are. We are talking the same movie language here.