title: Arturo Acevedo Vallarino
text: # Arturo Acevedo Vallarino
  
  Arturo Acevedo Vallarino (1873–1950) was a Colombian film director known for the silent films La tragedia del silencio (1924) and Bajo el Cielo Antioqueño (1925). In order to buy his first movie camera, he sold a timber plantation. In 1920, he founded production company Acevedo e Hijos.
  
  Arturo spent his childhood in Zipaquirá with his father, General Ramón Acevedo. In 1894 he graduated as a dentist. He married Laura Mendez Bernal and had six children.
  
  