Juan Martín Cueva
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Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
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) is an Ecuadorian documentary film director
Film director
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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 Chile
Chile
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and at the Brouillon d’un reve de la Scam in Paris
Paris
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on 1999.
Cueva was born in Quito the first son of the diplomat
Diplomacy
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and archaeologist Juan Cueva and his wife Magdalena Armijos. His paternal grandfather was the politician Carlos Cueva Tamaríz
Carlos Cueva Tamaríz
Carlos Cueva Tamariz was an Ecuadorian politician, lawyer and university professor.- Early life :Carlos Cueva was born on November 5, 1898 the first son of Agustín Cueva Muñoz and his wife Domitila Tamariz Larrea in Cuenca...
, his uncle the painter Patricio Cueva Jaramillo
Patricio Cueva Jaramillo
Patricio Cueva Jaramillo was a Latin American painter and journalist.Cueva was born in Cuenca. He was the second son of Carlos Cueva Tamaríz and his wife Rosa Esther Jaramillo Montesinos. Cueva's family was middle-class; nevertheless his father was a distinguished politician and professor at the...
and his cousin Fernando Cordero Cueva
Fernando Cordero Cueva
Fernando Cordero Cueva is an Ecuadorian politician and architect. He is the former mayor of Cuenca, Ecuador, former Member of the Ecuadorian Congress and former President of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly 2007. He is also publicly known as "Corcho" Cordero.Cordero was born 1952 in Cuenca the...
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 Paris
Paris
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, where his father studied at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
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University and was later appointed Ambassador
Ambassador
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of Ecuador at the UNESCO
UNESCO
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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 Belgium
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His documentaries have appeared at many Film Festivals in Ecuador and abroad such as Lateinamerikanische Filmtage 2008 in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
and Chicago International Documentary Film Festival
Chicago International Documentary Film Festival
The Chicago International Documentary Film Festival is a festival of documentary films in the U.S. The film event was established in 2003 and is dedicated to the celebration and cultivation of the documentary film. Over $50,000 in unrestricted cash plus other prizes are awarded by the jury.CIDF is...
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He has also teach 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
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ is a liberal-arts, non-profit, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally-private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region...
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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)