Carlos Saguier and Jesús Ruiz Nestosa

Carlos Saguier was born in Asunción on 14 July 1945 and shot his first short film at the age of eighteen. With Antonio Pecci and Jesús Ruiz Nestosa, he formed the Cine Arte Experimental collective in the sixties, which tried to create an auteur cinema in Paraguay under the dictatorship. He later made a career in advertising and television, filmed the construction sites of the Itaipú and Yacyretá dams, received the distinction of master of art in 2016 and died in Asunción on 12 April 2024; the Paraguayan film academy has created a prize in his name.

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• CinemaEl puebloCarlos Saguier and Jesús Ruiz Nestosa · 1969Cinema