Ariel Zúñiga

Biography

Ariel Zúñiga Laborde (Mexico City, 1947), is a Mexican cinematographer, director, editor, and screenwriter. At the age of 18, he traveled to France where he studied Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris and, in 1968, enrolled as a free student at IDHEC. Upon returning to Mexico, Ariel Zúñiga acquired a 16mm camera and began filming documentaries for cultural television artists. In the early seventies, he worked as a cameraman for Tiempo de cine, a television program on Canal Once featuring Emili…