
Rafael Valera Rossell
Directing
Biography
Venezuelan underground filmmaker.
Known For

A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
Wayúu: La Niña de Maracaibo

Eladio is a failed actor who has spent years in obscurity working maintenance at a TV station in the capital. When he’s forced to return to Maracaibo to care for his teenage niece —a fierce, guitar-playing rebel— their worlds clash. Amid loud music, insults, and generational conflict, Eladio accidentally reinvents himself as an acting teacher… and ends up entangled with one of the city’s most notorious crime syndicates. What follows is a hilarious, heartfelt, and uniquely Latin American story about rediscovery, family, and the absurdities of adulthood —at any age.
Back To Maracaibo

Pavo 90 is a medium-length film whose extravagant characters (Robbie, Darret and Luisda) take the viewer by the hand during a nostalgic trip through the Marabina (lol) society of the nineties, a trip during which our festive protagonists consume stuff, enjoy and spank next to a cassette new kids on the block in the repro of their Sierra Safiro, they pass daddy's American Express and venture into the vibrant Zuliana nightlife in the incessant search for a cuquita in which to wet their unruly glans
PAVO 90

Short experimental horror film.
Recámaras

A prequel to PAVO 90.
PAVO 89

Endi Paredes and Ángel Leiva invade the streets of Maracaibo.
invasión

Short film by Rafael Valera.
¿Plan B?

Amid an apathetic closed-in neighborhood, ELIAS, a laudanum addict, lives with his GRANDFATHER and his NURSE. Bored and isolated, he decides to videotape the lives of the ones around him, starting a chain of problems with each subject he records: A lonely old man and his ever barking dog, a beautiful newlywed woman tired of her routine, a couple of drug dealers that seek in ELIAS some enternainment.
Decomposed

A documentary about the noise of the city of Maracaibo.