Clemente de la Cerda

Clemente Felipe de la Cerda Martín was born in 1935 in Chichiriviche, in Falcón State, and came to Caracas at a very young age. He attended the School of Fine Arts in the capital, then, in 1962 and 1963, the Venezuelan Institute of Film Studies, and studied theatre for eight months at the Central University. He began directing in 1964 with Isla de sal, and his films, based on the lives of ordinary people, denounce the country's social problems. He made about ten in twenty years and died in Caracas on 13 December 1984.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaI Am a CriminalSoy un delincuenteClemente de la Cerda · 1976Cinema