Ulises Estrella

They also went to Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and finally to Mexico, because in Argentina Regina had earned a scholarship to study dance at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

They then moved to New York for 9 months, where he spent a great deal of time watching movies by Italian neorealist directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, which sparked his interest in film.

In 1967 he represented Ecuador in the International Poets Conference celebrated in Varadero, Havana, called "Encuentro con Rubén Darío".

There they began to plan poetry readings in dramatized presentations, and on 26 April 1962, after a period of rehearsals, the four Tzántzicos of the inaugural group Marco Muños, Ulises Estrella, Leandro Katz and Simón Corral presented the original and now mythological show of poetry Four Screams in the Dark in the Benjamín Carrión Auditorium of the House of Culture of Quito, which created a climate of rebellion and irreverence towards the literary forms that dominated the national culture.

Later, the Tzántzicos would meet on Friday nights at the Águila de Oro Café, which they renamed "77 Café", to discuss poetry, politics, and other cultural topics.The first Tzántzico Manifesto was signed on 27 August 1962 by Marco Muñoz, Alfonso Murriagui, Simón Corral, Teodoro Murillo, Euler Granda and Ulises Estrella.

He also taught literature at the Theater School of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, and the Favio Paccioni Art Center at the Central University of Ecuador.

In 1976 he produced the black and white movie Fuera de Aquí with the Kamán group of Bolivia, directed by Jorge Sanginés.

In 1990 he was elected President of the Association of Employees and Workers of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, and began to write film criticism for the newspaper Hoy.

He created the Film Department at the Central University (1971), the Cinemateca (1982), focusing on three aspects archiving, diffusion, and education, and which now bears the name of the Ulises Estrella National Cinematheque of Ecuador.