Víctor Nieto

Biography

Víctor Nieto Víctor Nieto Nuñez (1916 – November 28, 2008) was the Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival, the oldest film festival in Latin America. Nieto was born in Cartagena, Colombia. He began his career as a radio broadcaster. In 1939, Nieto launched a regional radio news program called Sintesis. He opened a series of radio stations beginning in 1946. For example, in 1949 Nieto opened both the Radio Centro Miramar station and the Cine Miramar theater in Cartagena. In 1960 he founded the Cartagena International Film Festival, in the company of a group of businessmen and personalities from the cultural world of Cartagena, by initiating a series of contacts with the International Federation of Film Producers Associations through the Colombian Embassy in Paris. France. To organize...

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