Chano Piñeiro
Directing
October 12, 1954
Died at age 40
March 21, 1995
Date of Death
Forcarey, Pontevedra, Spain
Biography
Luciano Manuel Piñeiro Martínez, better known as Chano Piñeiro (Forcarey, Pontevedra; October 12, 1954 - Vigo, March 21, 1995) was a Spanish film director. The main promoter of cinema in Galicia and in the Galician language, he was a self-taught director who began making his first works in Super-8 during the 1970s.