Pablo Riera is a prominent Uruguayan filmmaker, film editor, and actor, born in São Paulo but based in Uruguay since 2005, and a graduate of the Film School of Uruguay (ECU), where he also teaches, as he does at the University of the Republic. Although his primary career has been built behind the scenes as one of the national industry's most respected editors in feature films such as El lugar del hijo, El empleado y el patrón, and La teoría de los vidrios rotos, Riera is remembered in the acting field for starring in Manuel Nieto Zas's acclaimed 2005 film La perrera in the role of David, in addition to having appeared in the film Siempre juntos (Benzinho 2018).