Biography

Enver Cordido D'Martini was a Venezuelan filmmaker and audiovisual producer with a distinguished career. He was an advisor to the vice presidency of the National Autonomous Center of Cinematography (CNAC), a documentary filmmaker, and a mentor to other filmmakers. Born in Yaracuy on May 30, 1939, Cordido's life revolved around both film and political activism, according to the latest CNAC bulletin. A member of the communist youth and later a guerrilla fighter, he took a film directing course between 1965 and 1969 at the Experimental Center of Cinematography Cinecittà, in Rome, Italy. After completing his studies with the short film El camino de Espartaco, Cordido worked as a production assistant in 1969 for Sergio Leone on the film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and for Giancarlo Santi on That Man.