阿尔贝托·阿维罗，Alberto Arvelo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a writer, musician and director known for A House with a View of the Sea (Una Casa con Vista al Mar) (2001), Cyrano Fernández (2007), Libertador (2013). Arvelo has developed film works renowned for the social and human depth of their characters and the visual strength of their images. His films have won more than 30 international awards.His film, A House with a View of the Sea (Una Casa con Vista al Mar) (2001), tells a story of discrimination and injustice faced by a widowed father and his son amid loneliness and difficulties in the South-American Andes. The film was a part of the official selection for the Cannes Festival, was acknowledged with 23 international awards, and participated in over 40 international festivals.As a professor with the National Film School in Mérida, Venezuela, Arvelo founded the film movement known as "Atom Cinema" ("Cine Átomo") 2002. This movement is based on the idea of producing reflective human films with a crew of no more than five people and minimal production elements, intended to create viable projects for young Latin-American cinematographers. The first film within this movement, Habana Havana (2004), directed by Arvelo merited the Venezuelan National Film Award, and another dozen international awards.His prize-winning work, Cyrano Fernández (2007), is a free adaptation of the French classic, Cyrano de Bergerac. The film maintains the Cyrano-Roxane-Christian love triangle represented in the chaotic though spectacular urban surroundings of a barrio in Caracas. The leading role in Cyrano Fernández was played by Edgar Ramirez.His documentary Play and Fight (Tocar y Luchar) (2006), first shown at the Los Angeles AFI Festival, delves into the life of several children in the renowned Venezuelan Child and Youth Orchestra System (Sistema de Orquestas Infantiles y Juveniles de Venezuela), accompanied by classical-music figures such as Plácido Domingo, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, and