Luis Armando Roche is a filmmaker, writer and director of Theater and Opera, born in Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

, Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

. In 1999 he was awarded with the most important prize of cinema in his country, for his long career. Reside in the city of Caracas.

Early life

Luis Armando Roche (b. November 21, 1938) is a filmmaker, screenwriter and director of theatre and opera. Son of Luis Roche

Luis Roche

Luis Roche was an important Venezuelan urbanist and amateur film director, responsible in great measure for the development of Caracas' east side during the 1940s...

 (1888–1965) developer and amateur photographer, creator of the Plaza Altamira (Caracas), and Roche Dugand Beatrice (b. 1898). Both families of French descent (Roche and Dugand), Italians (Gnecco by the mother) and Irish. The Roche, Irish, emigrated to France after the Battle of Limerick.

Primary Education

Roche extended primary school in Caracas. In 1945 he moved to the Venezuelan Andes and studied 2 years at the San Jose School in Mérida. Since 1947, his father was appointed Ambassador of Venezuela in Argentina. He studied at the French School of Buenos Aires. In 1949, Roche was enrolled in the Nyack Junior School, elementary school near New York. After two years enrolled at The Choate School, college preparatory school located in Wallingford (Connecticut), United States. In 1957 finished his high school and later studied a year at Tulane University

Tulane University

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 New Orleans. In 1959, he returned to Caracas.

Second stage of studies and early work on cinema

Luis Armando Roche married his first time in 1961 with Marion Cisneros, who had 4 children: Beatrice, Nadine, Alonso and Alvaro. That same year, the couple decided to travel to Europe and Roche began his studies of Cinema. In 1962, he was accepted at the Institute for Advanced Film Studies (IDHEC) in Paris, where he studied for 2 years, graduating from Director-Producer. During that time he made his first feature film: Genevilliers, port of Paris (1964), a documentary on the port and home París. Raymond Isidore (1965) a documentary about a "naif" builder in Chartres, France , who built his house with pieces such as bottles, caps, glasses, etc. During his second year at the IDHEC made the short film Let's see a blind man said to his wife deaf (1965). From there, Roche continued to study film at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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 and the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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In 1965, his father, Luis Roche Roche, died and he decided to return to Caracas.

Venezuela - National Cinematheque - Short and medium length Films

Arriving in the capital of Venezuela he worked in the advertising agency ARS. Roche was assistant to the writer Alejo Carpentier, and of Bob Ferber, head of Public Relations. At that time, the renowned Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf appointed him director of the Audiovisual Department, Film, Theatre and Television at the National Institute of Culture (INCIBA). During those years he participated as a founding member of the National Cinematheque: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela. Also wrote and performed with the INCIBA, scripts and short films: The feast of the Virgen de la Candelaria (1966) and The Devils of San Miguel (1966).Independently, co-wrote and performed with Jean-Jacques Bichier, the short film Victor Millan (1967). In Paris, wrote and performed a medium-length titled 1923-1977 Carlos Cruz Diez, in the way of color (1971), this work was followed by Ignacio "Indio" Figueredo (1972), a short film about the great harpist. Merida is a town (1972), an experimental shortfilm. Also wrote and performed the medium-length As islands in Time (1975), about the expedition led by Charles Brewer-Carias and the tepuis Sarisariñama Jaua, located in Amazonas (Venezuela). Also produced, wrote and directed Virtuosos (1999), about the great Venezuelan folk musicians of the 20th century. He was also co-wroted with Diana Abreu Zaraza short-Bach (2000), a musical dream of an imaginary trip to Venezuela of Johann Sebastian Bach. In parallel, he worked as assistant director on many foreign films that were shot in Venezuela and Colombia: The Epic of Alessandro Blasetti Bolivar, Popsy Pop - or La Belle et le Truand Jean Herman, The Adventurers of Lewis Gilbert and Murphy's War Peter Yates.

Filmography

It was co-writer and director Fabrice Helion Cinema feature I Am the cinema(1977).This made her first film role of actor. The film was presented at various international festivals, among them the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), the Moscow Film Festival and San Sebastian. He continued as a director with the thriller The Secret (1988) where he performed for the second time in one of his films. Two years later directed Outdoors (1996), where he co-wrote with Jacques Espagne. In this film she played the character Siefert.This work was based on scientific experience trip to equatorial lands of explorers Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland and was awarded in many festivals. Yotama Flies Away (2003) starring Édgar Ramírez and Martha Tarazona, where he served as director and co-writer alongside Carlos Brito and Jacques Espagne. In 2011, he wrote and directed Suddenly, The Movie (2011), a satirical comedy starring Daniela Bascope and Carlos Antonio León as two lovers who try to shot a movie in the Venezuelan jungle with disastrous results. In this film, Roche also played three characters and composed several musical pieces.

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733954/ Imdb
• http://www.derepentelapelicula.com/ Oficial Web Site Suddenly, the movie
• http://www.eluniversal.com/estampas/anteriores/211104/encuentros4.shtml Artícle in Estampas Magazine about Yotama
• http://wearemoviegeeks.com/2009/09/exclusive-sets-pics-from-de-repente-la-pelicula/ Suddenly, The Movie We Are Movie Geeks Movie Reviews