委内瑞拉第一部有国际水平的影片却是由独立制片人生产的。这部影片的女导演玛尔戈特·贝纳塞拉芙于1953年开始拍片，摄制了一部奇特而引人入胜的纪录片《雷维隆》，纪念委内瑞拉一位著名的画家。她在1959年又导演了《阿拉亚》这部长故事片，描写在一片闪闪发亮的可怕的盐田中工人们的艰辛劳动。我们还应该提到青年导演罗曼·查尔沃德的影片《少年杀人犯》。（《世界电影史》） Román Chalbaud developed a great artistic activity in various forms lasting more than forty years. At 17 years it regularly writes theater and film critics for the literary review " El Nacional". To 20 years, it presents a program to the national télévison and founds in 1967 " El Nuevo Grupo". Between 1953 and 1990 he writes 17 plays while developing in parallel his cinematographic activity which began with the film " Cain adolescente" , one of its theatrical works. He is the first Venezuelan to have received the national prices of theater (1984) and cinema (1990).