Daniel Varela(I)
- Art Director
- Producer
- Editor
Was the first film mentor of then-future-director Guillermo del Toro
when the Hellboy and Mimic director was a college kid. Daniel Varela
also gave lessons to a lot of filmmakers in Guadalajara, such as
Antonio Urrutia, Rene Castillo, Juan Carlos Lazo, Paulina del Paso,
Sergio Ulloa and Francisco Rodriguez, among others. Varela is the
Director of the Audiovisual Arts Center in Guadalajara. A passionate
cinema-lover, Varela has shared his love for movies in diferent spaces,
such as television, radio, classrooms and his Videosala. In this last
place was where the movies of directors like Peter Greenaway, Pedro
Almodovar, Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmush were shown for the first time
ever in the city of Guadalajara.