
Directing
Miguel Curiel
London
Miguel Curiel is a Venezuelan filmmaker active since the 1980s, working as a director, screenwriter, producer, and occasionally cinematographer. He is best known for the feature La niña de Maracaibo (2011) and earlier works like Una noche oriental (1986), alongside documentaries such as Venezuela: los guerrilleros al poder (1997). A graduate in Letters from the Central University of Venezuela, Curiel has also written and produced widely across Venezuelan film and culture.
Acting credits
NRDocumentary that tells the story of some Venezuelan guerrilleros who, following the so-called Pacification of the 1970s, held official positions in various Venezuelan state entities. Venezuelan political figures share their perspectives on this recent event in Venezuelan history.
Venezuela: los guerrilleros al poder
1997
NRBeginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.
Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
2017
Behind the camera
3.5A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
Wayúu: La Niña de Maracaibo
2012
3.5A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
Wayúu: La Niña de Maracaibo
2012
3.5A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
Wayúu: La Niña de Maracaibo
2012
NRDocumentary that tells the story of some Venezuelan guerrilleros who, following the so-called Pacification of the 1970s, held official positions in various Venezuelan state entities. Venezuelan political figures share their perspectives on this recent event in Venezuelan history.
Venezuela: los guerrilleros al poder
1997
NRDocumentary that tells the story of some Venezuelan guerrilleros who, following the so-called Pacification of the 1970s, held official positions in various Venezuelan state entities. Venezuelan political figures share their perspectives on this recent event in Venezuelan history.
Venezuela: los guerrilleros al poder
1997
10.0Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.
Una noche oriental
1986
10.0Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.
Una noche oriental
1986
A wandering showman known as Blacamán the Good sells miraculous cures to the poor and desperate, blurring the line between faith and fraud. Under the shadow of another, more sinister Blacamán, his life becomes a cycle of deception, where each miracle deepens his entrapment.
Blacamán el bueno, vendedor de milagros
1976
A wandering showman known as Blacamán the Good sells miraculous cures to the poor and desperate, blurring the line between faith and fraud. Under the shadow of another, more sinister Blacamán, his life becomes a cycle of deception, where each miracle deepens his entrapment.
Blacamán el bueno, vendedor de milagros
1976
The turning point is in between the surrealism and the magic reality: The Tropical Couple. They were a young couple and the time to discover and surprise each other had past. The time had come to share fears and solitude too. The neighbors make love and watch pornos. It’s Sunday and it’s very hot. She and he are not even angry at each other anymore. Their fantasies are running out of a lot of loneliness. She is the woman and He is the man. She is flesh & spirit. He is spirit & flesh. The fridge is broken, the food is rotting. ‘Look at me I’m naked and waiting for you inside the fridge. I’m your little Mama, your domadora, what ever you want’. The song keeps playing on the recorder and the refrigerator still is broken. ‘I beat you but I love you. Maybe the neighbor will see us while we make love watching porno. Why do we always find each other in the neighbor’s window?
Al calor de una nevera descompuesta
1995
The turning point is in between the surrealism and the magic reality: The Tropical Couple. They were a young couple and the time to discover and surprise each other had past. The time had come to share fears and solitude too. The neighbors make love and watch pornos. It’s Sunday and it’s very hot. She and he are not even angry at each other anymore. Their fantasies are running out of a lot of loneliness. She is the woman and He is the man. She is flesh & spirit. He is spirit & flesh. The fridge is broken, the food is rotting. ‘Look at me I’m naked and waiting for you inside the fridge. I’m your little Mama, your domadora, what ever you want’. The song keeps playing on the recorder and the refrigerator still is broken. ‘I beat you but I love you. Maybe the neighbor will see us while we make love watching porno. Why do we always find each other in the neighbor’s window?
Al calor de una nevera descompuesta
1995
The turning point is in between the surrealism and the magic reality: The Tropical Couple. They were a young couple and the time to discover and surprise each other had past. The time had come to share fears and solitude too. The neighbors make love and watch pornos. It’s Sunday and it’s very hot. She and he are not even angry at each other anymore. Their fantasies are running out of a lot of loneliness. She is the woman and He is the man. She is flesh & spirit. He is spirit & flesh. The fridge is broken, the food is rotting. ‘Look at me I’m naked and waiting for you inside the fridge. I’m your little Mama, your domadora, what ever you want’. The song keeps playing on the recorder and the refrigerator still is broken. ‘I beat you but I love you. Maybe the neighbor will see us while we make love watching porno. Why do we always find each other in the neighbor’s window?
Al calor de una nevera descompuesta
1995
In a small-town neighborhood, a group of ordinary men pool their savings to buy a single elegant white suit, passing it from one to another as each pursues a fleeting dream of transformation.
El traje color de helado de mantecado
1983
In a small-town neighborhood, a group of ordinary men pool their savings to buy a single elegant white suit, passing it from one to another as each pursues a fleeting dream of transformation.
El traje color de helado de mantecado
1983
NRThe documentary recreates the facts in the life of the Yukpa Chief, Sabino Romero, an indigenous fighter killed on March 3, 2013, in the Chaktapa community of the Sierra de Perija in Zulia state, Venezuela. The film reflects the infinite struggle of Sabino and his people, accompanied by the social groups, in this story of truly libertarian images made with blood and fire, revealing the skein of interests that forged and carried out Sabino's murder, and the attitude Inhuman and murderous of those who made it another victim of history.
Sabino vive: las últimas fronteras
2015
