Alberto Arvelo Mendoza

A cello and an eight-millimeter camera: these were the choices that a teenaged Alberto Arvelo gave himself when deciding the direction his life would take. Ten films and over thirty international festival awards later, the camera has emerged victorious. Born in Venezuela, Arvelo has developed a cinematographic body of work recognized for the profound social and human burden of his characters and by the visual power of his films. Two of his most emblematic works,… (mehr)