Frank Pineda
| Frank Pineda | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 January 1956 Managua, Nicaragua |
| Residence | Managua, Nicaragua |
| Nationality | Nicaraguan |
| Occupation | Filmmaker, director of photography, cameraman |
| Years active | Since 1979 |
| Partner(s) | Florence Jaugey |
| Website | http://www.camilafilms.com/ |
Frank Pineda (21 January 1956, Estelí, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan filmmaker, producer, director of photography, and cameraman. He started his career as a war correspondent and cameraman in Nicaragua in the late 1970s. He was a founding member of INCINE, the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema, (in Spanish Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine). He co-founded with his partner, the French filmmaker Florence Jaugey, Camila Films (Nicaragua) an independent film production company based in Managua.
Pineda started his career when he enrolled in an intensive course in cinematography in Mexico City and soon after started to work as war correspondent and cameraman for international news and television networks as BBC, Channel 4, PBS, and the Hallmark Channel. He was a founding member of INCINE, the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema (in Spanish Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine). While at this organization he participated in the making of 50 short documentaries about the Nicaraguan Revolution. Pineda co-directed the first one of these documentaries, that they called Noticieros, with another Nicaraguan filmmaker Ramiro Lacayo, titled Primer Noticiero INCINE (1979) and it won the Saúl Yelín Award from the Committee of Filmmakers of Latin America at the First Edition (1979) of the Havana Film Festival, Cuba. Pineda has worked in over 100 short and feature films and documentaries.
During the 1980s Pineda continued to work in an assortment of cinematographic works. He worked as a cameraman in the documentary "Fire from the Mountain"(1987), directed by the Academy Award Winner director Deborah Shaffer, this movie was nominated for an Emmy and participated at the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. He worked as director of photography for the Universal Studios Walker (1987) by the British director Alex Cox with lead American actor Ed Harris. Towards the end of the 1980s he received an award at the Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, for a black and white short film he directed titled "The Man with One Note" (in Spanish El hombre de una sola nota).
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