Alfredo Hueck

Alfredo Hueck (born 1980) is a Venezuelan film producer, editor, writer and director. He is known for his professional debut, [YBI-173], and 2015 film Package #3, both award-winning. He also worked on other films in the 2010s, notably with his brother, director Luis.

Early life Hueck became interested in cinema through his parents, who kept many cameras. His interest grew when he was taught how to connect the Betamax his family had.

Career Alfredo Hueck studied at the Universidad Santa María in Caracas, graduating in the first communications class, and at night school at the Caracas School of Film and Television. He won the Best Documentary in a student competition in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1999 for a film he created with his brother called Ella Es...; He edited the Cuban film La Piscina, which was selected for the Berlin Film Festival. He also directed a segment of the 2013-released anthology film Caracas, Te Quiero Que Jode, called Guárdame puesto (Save me a spot). Hueck released the first trailer for this short as part of the project in 2009.

Hueck's first directorial feature film was the 2015 Package #3, a political satire about Venezuela. In 2016, he was writing more features, and was shown at the first Barcelona Venezuelan film festival, the Miami Venezuelan film festival, and the New York Venezuelan film festival. It was nominated for Best Venezuelan Film at the 2016 Estereo awards. Also in 2016, his short film Lady in White won the Best Action Film award at Top Shorts film festival.

He was the edit supervisor for the 2018 American film The Compassion Project. In 2019, Hueck was hired as a director for the Colombian Sony Pictures Television show Manual para Galanes.

Interviewed in 2016, Hueck said that the hardest part of making films in Venezuela is financing, as there is little money so he often works by getting sponsors or borrowing equipment and only paying actors in credit. However, he thinks there is a benefit to making a film on a minimal budget, as it opens up creative problem-solving and innovative ways of telling the same story. Hueck also explained his creative process, starting with a script, then actors, then crew and filming, and then music; he often works with the same people, actors and creatives who "when [he sees] them working [he thinks] they are the best".