Biography

Armando Arcehas is a Venezuela filmmaker that has also successfully through the art of painting, sculpture and film. In all these fields, he has stood out for his inventiveness, since his little clay figures made for set designs and characters of films internationally have been awarded at film festivals; his big scale painting that has been awarded at prestigious exhibition rooms of Latin America; until his incursion in sculpture appreciated by the specialized studies on the subject, all of them evidence the versatility of this creator. Among his most important animations are as Manzanita (1978), Wanady (1981), and El sueño de los hombres (1986).