Career
Born to exiled Spanish parents in Algeria, he went to France with his family in 1961/2. Is a documentary filmed by Poveda in El Salvador about the life of local gangs. The hand-held camera focus on daily life in a base cell of one of the gigantic maras, the la Campanera X-18 clique, composed of fifty engaging adolescents and young adults with an average age of 16 to 18.
The documentary was presented in the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2008.
Christian Poveda was shot to death in Tonacatepeque, El Salvador on September 2, 2009. He was 52 years old.