Venezuelan filmmaker born in Caracas, he moved to Mérida in 1963, scaping political persecution.
He is known for the films Diles que no me maten (1985), based on Juan Rulfo's story, and Los Nevados (1979).
Freddy Siso was a member of the legendary Cinema Department of the University of the Andes in Mérida.
A topographer who makes a living drawing up maps for indigenous and peasant communities dreams of managing death.
Florentino is a young horseman and singer, a free spirit living in the open world without restrictions, in the Venezuelan plains. He confronts the devil in a duel of improvised verses. As time passes, these unspoilt plains start to change. Through Florentino's voice and actions, the plains cannot be conquered. Its culture defies the devil in the eternal fight between good and evil, between life and death.
Based on the thesis of Alejandro Rivero and Ernesto Pacheco, this documentary attempts to glimpse, through the senses, the fourth mathematical dimension.
In this short film, made on the occasion of a visit by Maurice Hasson to Mérida to perform in concert, he evokes in a warm conversation his indelible memories and deeply human experiences of his life in Mérida.
Documentary about the struggles of the people of El Sitio del Anís, in the Venezuelan Andes.
An approach to Latin American protest music.
Los Nevados is the first peasant feature film from Venezuela. The magical poetry about humans who endure an almost animal, almost instinctive, almost sad existence, which turns into a complaint.
Documentary inspired by the book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano "Open Veins of Latin America".