Donald Myerston

Directing

Donald Myerston

Born — Died

1945-07-01 — 2026-07-23

Place of birth

Caracas, Venezuela

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Director, screenwriter, editor and producer of radio, film, video, theater and TV since 1965. Founding member of the Department of Film at the University of Los Andes, and a key figure of the New Latin American Cinema movement.

Known for

Renovación poster
10.0

In 1969, a wave of discontent swept through Latin American universities. In Venezuela, students set out to fundamentally renew the concept and criteria of teaching. This is their story.

Renovación

1969

Coup at Daybreak poster
6.8

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.

Coup at Daybreak

1998

Amazonas, el negocio de este mundo poster
8.0

Documentary about multiple the denouncement of military, religious and science sectors, in relation to the violation of the indigenous tribes of the Venezuelan Amazon by the american evangelical mission New Tribes

Amazonas, el negocio de este mundo

1987

Imagen de Caracas poster
9.0

Imagen de Caracas was an experimental film spectacle, directed by Jacobo Borges and Mario Robles in 1968 for the 400 anniversary of the foundation of Caracas. It needed more than 48768 meters of film and 5000 actors.

Imagen de Caracas

1967

No artwork available
NR

The story of San Fernando de Atabapo, a small, remote town in the Amazon region, where the borders of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela meet. A town where more than 20 different nationalities coexist and almost as many languages ​​are spoken. The film explores the relationships that develop among its inhabitants and the reasons that lead them to live in this area despite its difficult economic and political conditions.

Atabapo

1968

La autonomía ha muerto poster
NR

In 1969, the Renovación Universitaria movement and the subsequent raid on the Central University of Venezuela by the government of Rafael Caldera, triggered a strong wave of protest in the Institutes of Higher Education in Venezuela. This documentary collects part of the events that took place in the city of Mérida, Mérida State, where the University of the Andes is located.

La autonomía ha muerto

1969

Behind the camera

Renovación poster
10.0

In 1969, a wave of discontent swept through Latin American universities. In Venezuela, students set out to fundamentally renew the concept and criteria of teaching. This is their story.

Renovación

1969

Renovación poster
10.0

In 1969, a wave of discontent swept through Latin American universities. In Venezuela, students set out to fundamentally renew the concept and criteria of teaching. This is their story.

Renovación

1969

Coup at Daybreak poster
6.8

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.

Coup at Daybreak

1998

Amazonas, el negocio de este mundo poster
8.0

Documentary about multiple the denouncement of military, religious and science sectors, in relation to the violation of the indigenous tribes of the Venezuelan Amazon by the american evangelical mission New Tribes

Amazonas, el negocio de este mundo

1987

Imagen de Caracas poster
9.0

Imagen de Caracas was an experimental film spectacle, directed by Jacobo Borges and Mario Robles in 1968 for the 400 anniversary of the foundation of Caracas. It needed more than 48768 meters of film and 5000 actors.

Imagen de Caracas

1967

No artwork available
NR

The story of San Fernando de Atabapo, a small, remote town in the Amazon region, where the borders of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela meet. A town where more than 20 different nationalities coexist and almost as many languages ​​are spoken. The film explores the relationships that develop among its inhabitants and the reasons that lead them to live in this area despite its difficult economic and political conditions.

Atabapo

1968

La autonomía ha muerto poster
NR

In 1969, the Renovación Universitaria movement and the subsequent raid on the Central University of Venezuela by the government of Rafael Caldera, triggered a strong wave of protest in the Institutes of Higher Education in Venezuela. This documentary collects part of the events that took place in the city of Mérida, Mérida State, where the University of the Andes is located.

La autonomía ha muerto

1969

La autonomía ha muerto poster
NR

In 1969, the Renovación Universitaria movement and the subsequent raid on the Central University of Venezuela by the government of Rafael Caldera, triggered a strong wave of protest in the Institutes of Higher Education in Venezuela. This documentary collects part of the events that took place in the city of Mérida, Mérida State, where the University of the Andes is located.

La autonomía ha muerto

1969

Kaporito poster
NR

In an area of ​​the Andes, some peasants who hunt for pleasure kill a Frontinian bear and its partner, orphaning a little bear (Kaporito) that faces persecution by hunters. Kaporito is protected by the rest of the animals and other characters in nature. Animals wage a kind of guerilla warfare to defend themselves and their habitat.

Kaporito

2021

Kaporito poster
NR

In an area of ​​the Andes, some peasants who hunt for pleasure kill a Frontinian bear and its partner, orphaning a little bear (Kaporito) that faces persecution by hunters. Kaporito is protected by the rest of the animals and other characters in nature. Animals wage a kind of guerilla warfare to defend themselves and their habitat.

Kaporito

2021

No artwork available
9.0

Three youngsters whose imaginations have run amok are hanging around an island searching for pirate treasure. Reality hits them in the face when some Haitians, trying to escape the terrible social and economic conditions in their country, land on the island.

Tesoro

1987

No artwork available
9.0

Three youngsters whose imaginations have run amok are hanging around an island searching for pirate treasure. Reality hits them in the face when some Haitians, trying to escape the terrible social and economic conditions in their country, land on the island.

Tesoro

1987

Cubagua poster
8.5

Based on the novel by Venezuelan writer Enrique Bernardo Núñez, the film tells the story of engineer Leiziaga discovering his historical doubles in the context of the colonization of the island of Cubagua in Venezuela. In this way, two stories are intertwined: one that takes place in the 16th century and another in the 20th century. The first story focuses on the life of the Spanish settlers who arrived in Cubagua and the exploitation of the indigenous peoples for pearl extraction; the second story, set in the 1920s, tells of Leiziaga's archaeological expedition, financed by a multinational oil company, in which he visits the island to study the ruins of the Spanish settlement, which leads him to reflect on the passage of time and the destruction caused by human exploitation, and through a game of mirrors, to realize the relationships between the past, present and future.

Cubagua

1987