Manuel Trujillo Durán, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Trujillo Durán

Venezuelan filmmaker

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1871

Place of Birth: Maracaibo, Venezuela

Date of Death: 14-Mar-1933

Profession: photographer, businessperson, filmmaker, journalist

Nationality: Venezuela

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Manuel Trujillo Durán (8 January 1871 – 14 March 1933) was a Venezuelan photographer who pioneered film in Venezuela.
Trujillo was most successful as a photographer, though he dabbled in other industries and is best remembered for his connections to the fledgling film industry in Venezuela.
He became one of the first people from Latin America to learn how to show films; he was thought for many years to be the director of Venezuela's first films, and traveled through Venezuela and Colombia with projectors to introduce cinema to this part of the South American continent.