Juan Martín Cueva Armijos (born October 9, 1966, in Paris

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) is an Ecuadorian documentary film director and the director of the Filmfestival "Cero Latitud" in Quito. His documentary film "Where the poles meet" won the Best Documentary at the ''IX Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia'' in

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and at the ''Brouillon d’un reve de la Scam'' in

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in 1999. Cueva was born in France, the first son of the diplomat and archaeologist Juan Cueva and his wife Magdalena Armijos. His paternal grandfather was the politician Carlos Cueva Tamaríz, his uncle the painter

Patricio Cueva Jaramillo Patricio Cueva Jaramillo (28 December 1928 – 19 May 2010) was a Latin American Painting, painter and journalist. Cueva was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, Cuenca. He was the second son of Carlos Cueva Tamaríz (1898–1991) and his wife Rosa Esther Jar ...

and his cousin Fernando Cordero Cueva is the current (2011) president of the Ecuadorian Congress. Cueva spent his early childhood in many rural towns in Ecuador as his father worked as an archaeologist. The family moved later to

, where his father studied at the

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University and was later appointed Ambassador of Ecuador at the

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. Cueva learned therefore French from an early age and later studied cinematography at the Institut National Superior des Arts du spectacle in

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. His documentaries have appeared at many Film Festivals in Ecuador and abroad such as ''Lateinamerikanische Filmtage'' 2008 in

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and

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. He has also taught in many Ecuadorian universities such as the Universidad de las Américas, Escuela de Cine y Actuación INCIN and the

Universidad San Francisco de Quito Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first l ...

Films

* Este maldito país (2008) * El lugar donde se juntan los polos (2002) - Best Documentary Film at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdiviam, Best Screenplay at the Festival Latinoamericano de Rosario, Prize of the Festival Sur Realidades Bogotá, Premio del 4to Festival de Cine Pobre Mexico and Prize Brouillon d’un reve de la SCAM Paris * (2001) * Marineros (1997)

References

External links

Cueva in Cine Lateinomaericano
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Official Website Este maldito país

Cero Latitud
1966 births Living people People from Quito Ecuadorian film directors Academic staff of Universidad San Francisco de Quito {{Ecuador-film-director-stub