Jorge Ruiz

Jorge Ruiz was born in Sucre in 1924. He studied agronomy in Argentina, where he began filming in eight millimetre, and entered the profession in 1947, hired by the company of the American Kenneth Wasson. In 1949 he shot, with Augusto Roca, the first colour film of his country. From 1957 he directed the Bolivian Film Institute, then from 1962 to 1983 worked in Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Ecuador and New York. John Grierson counted him among the six great documentary makers of the world. He died in Cochabamba on 24 July 2012.

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• CinemaVuelve SebastianaJorge Ruiz · 1953Cinema