![Three people look out on a cliff.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_4x3/public/2024-07/LagunadelSoldado4%20%281%29.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=x6YH0sxi)
The Soldier’s Lagoon (La Laguna del Soldado)
Pablo Álvarez Mesa
about the artists
Pablo Álvarez-Mesa
Pablo Álvarez-Mesa is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor working mainly in nonfiction. His films have played and earned awards at international film festivals, including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Viennale, Museum of Modern Aart, Visions du Réel, and Montreal International Documentary Festival. His work in cinema lies in the relationship between fact and fiction; between what is recalled and what is inevitably constructed. Alvarez-Mesa is aSundance Documentary Fund grantee; an affiliate member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University; and a Berlinale Talents, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Canadian Film Centre alumnus.