Diego de la Texera

Diego de la Texera graduated from New York University (NYU) and specialized through the Directors Guild of America (DGA). His filmmaking career is defined by technical innovation and his involvement with the Latin American political and cultural landscape. In the 1970s, he founded Sandino Filmes in San Juan, a production company through which he made documentaries and television content. During the same period, on the Southern Front of Nicaragua, he organized the propaganda war against the Somoza dictatorship, a context in which he filmed El Danto.

The documentary El Salvador: El Pueblo Vencerá (1980), which he directed, is recognized as one of the main records of the Salvadoran Civil War. Funded and commissioned by the communication wing of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the film achieved wide international distribution, screening in over 30 countries. Its reception was divided between the historical value of its footage and its militant nature. The film won the Gran Coral award at the Havana Film Festival, along with honors at the Moscow International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the Lille Film Festival in France.

Subsequently, Texera founded the Cinematography Department at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba, where he directed the fiction feature film Tesoro.

In Rio de Janeiro, he co-founded Cinelândia Produções alongside Maria Dulce Saldanha, a company through which he directed his own fiction feature film Meteoro, co-produced Walter Lima Jr.’s Através da Sombra, and produced the short film Beso de Bala, shot in Nicaragua. In Puerto Rico, under the Cinelândia imprint, he edited and published his literary works Sandino: La última 'guerra bananera' and the screenplay anthology Películas que nunca hice.