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Miñuca Villaverde, Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), among which “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction) stand out. After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as “Blanca Puntica, a girl in love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists' Program Service, CAPS), “To my father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, still ironing “her husband shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. His documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban audiovisual material made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los Días de la coleccionista” (2010).

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Miñuca Villaverde, Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), among which “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction) stand out. After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as “Blanca Puntica, a girl in love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists' Program Service, CAPS), “To my father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, still ironing “her husband shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. His documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban audiovisual material made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los Días de la coleccionista” (2010).

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Miñuca Villaverde, Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), among which “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction) stand out. After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as “Blanca Puntica, a girl in love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists' Program Service, CAPS), “To my father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, still ironing “her husband shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. His documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban audiovisual material made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los Días de la coleccionista” (2010).

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Rafael Ramírez (Cuba, 1983). BA in Audiovisual Communication by the University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba. Graduated in Documentary Filmmaking at the EICTV of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His work has been part of international programs in France, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, USA, Greece and Japan. His short films and projects have been premiered or selected in relevant film festivals such as Locarno, Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Frames of Representation, Neighboring Scenes, FICValdivia, FestCurtas, MAFIZ, Frontera Sur, DocLisboa, CortosCali, among others. In the 32th edition of Mar del Plata was presented a retrospective of his works in the Altered States Section. Ramirez’s first feature “The Winter Campaigns” was premiered in the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2019. In 2021, DOCMA the Association of Documentary Cinema in Spain organized a retrospective of his work.

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Ricardo Figueredo (Cuba, 1972), filmmaker and producer. Graduated in Production from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has produced multiple short and feature films, among which stands out the saga of Nicanor O'Donell directed by Eduardo del Llano. Since 2006 he has written and directed independent documentaries such as"Sexo, historias y cintas de video", "Operación Alfa o lo que le pasó a Benito Manso", "La singular historia de Juan sin nada", "La teoría cubana de la sociedad perfecta" and "Rojo, Amarillo, Verde". He is the founder of Cooperativa Producciones, a collective of film development and co-production, under which films such as "Casting", by Eduardo del Llano, and "Alberto", by Raúl Prado, have been awarded in the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano of Havana.

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Marcel Beltrán is a Cuban filmmaker currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. With film studies at EICTV (Cuba) and Concordia University (Canada), his films have screened internationally at festivals such as IDFA, Hot Docs, MoMA Doc Fortnight, DOC NYC, RIDM, FICG, Busan, DOK Leipzig, Málaga, among others. Founder of Mediocielo Films, professor at EICTV and Chavón | The School of Design, consultant for projects in development at international level and facilitator for sustainability in the arts.

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Alejandro Alonso (Cuba, 1987). Graduated in Documentary Directing from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His documentaries have been awarded at multiple international film festivals. “The Farewell” (2014) had its world premiere at IDFA. His first feature-length documentary, “The Project” (2017), premiered at Visions du Réel and received the FIPRESCI Prize at DOK Leipzig. “Terranova” (2021) had its world premiere in Rotterdam and won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award. Between 2017 and 2019, Alonso Estrella coordinated the Alternative Cinema master's program at EICTV.

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Alejandro Alonso (Cuba, 1987). Graduated in Documentary Directing from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His documentaries have been awarded at multiple international film festivals. “The Farewell” (2014) had its world premiere at IDFA. His first feature-length documentary, “The Project” (2017), premiered at Visions du Réel and received the FIPRESCI Prize at DOK Leipzig. “Terranova” (2021) had its world premiere in Rotterdam and won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award. Between 2017 and 2019, Alonso Estrella coordinated the Alternative Cinema master's program at EICTV.

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Ricardo Figueredo (Cuba, 1972), filmmaker and producer. Graduated in Production from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has produced multiple short and feature films, among which stands out the saga of Nicanor O'Donell directed by Eduardo del Llano. Since 2006 he has written and directed independent documentaries such as"Sexo, historias y cintas de video", "Operación Alfa o lo que le pasó a Benito Manso", "La singular historia de Juan sin nada", "La teoría cubana de la sociedad perfecta" and "Rojo, Amarillo, Verde". He is the founder of Cooperativa Producciones, a collective of film development and co-production, under which films such as "Casting", by Eduardo del Llano, and "Alberto", by Raúl Prado, have been awarded in the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano of Havana.

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Miguel Coyula (Cuba, 1977), independent filmmaker. He studied Directing at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, where he shot avant-garde short films such as "Bailar sobre agujas" (1999), "Buena onda" (1999) and "Clase Z Tropical" (2000), among others. In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute in New York, where Coyula made his first feature film, "Red Cockroaches" (2003), with a budget of less than $2,000 over two years. This film won 20 awards at international festivals and was hailed by Variety as "a triumph of technology in the hands of a visionary with know-how". His second feature film is "Memories of Overdevelopment" (2010), a sequel to the Cuban classic "Memories of Underdevelopment" (1968). The film premiered at Sundance and garnered a score of national and international awards. It was chosen as the best Cuban film of the year by the International Film Guide. In 2009, Coyula received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He returned to Havana in 2010 and has since made his first documentary "Nadie" (2017), as well as his third feature-length fiction film, "Blue Heart" (2021).

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Marcel Beltrán is a Cuban filmmaker currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. With film studies at EICTV (Cuba) and Concordia University (Canada), his films have screened internationally at festivals such as IDFA, Hot Docs, MoMA Doc Fortnight, DOC NYC, RIDM, FICG, Busan, DOK Leipzig, Málaga, among others. Founder of Mediocielo Films, professor at EICTV and Chavón | The School of Design, consultant for projects in development at international level and facilitator for sustainability in the arts.

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Fernando Villaverde (Havana, 1938) was director at the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) before going into exile in 1965. In Cuba he directed the shorts “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction), as well as the fiction feature film “El mar”, production that was interrupted by censorship. In New York he became involved in the experimental film scene and made short films such as “Apollo, man to the moon” (1970) and “A Lady’s Home Journal” (1972). His books include “Diderot's Painted Lips” (Golden Letters Award, 1992) and “The Irresistible Fall of the Berlin Wall” (2016).

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Fernando Villaverde (Havana, 1938) was director at the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) before going into exile in 1965. In Cuba he directed the shorts “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction), as well as the fiction feature film “El mar”, production that was interrupted by censorship. In New York he became involved in the experimental film scene and made short films such as “Apollo, man to the moon” (1970) and “A Lady’s Home Journal” (1972). His books include “Diderot's Painted Lips” (Golden Letters Award, 1992) and “The Irresistible Fall of the Berlin Wall” (2016).

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Alejandro Alonso (Cuba, 1987). Graduated in Documentary Directing from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His documentaries have been awarded at multiple international film festivals. “The Farewell” (2014) had its world premiere at IDFA. His first feature-length documentary, “The Project” (2017), premiered at Visions du Réel and received the FIPRESCI Prize at DOK Leipzig. “Terranova” (2021) had its world premiere in Rotterdam and won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award. Between 2017 and 2019, Alonso Estrella coordinated the Alternative Cinema master's program at EICTV.

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Samuel Suffren is a Haitian director and producer. He has directed several short films selected and awarded at multiple international festivals. His most recent short film, "Agwe", participated in the official selection of the 75th Locarno Film Festival and in the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Market. He also won the Paul Robeson Prize at the prestigious FESPACO festival. Samuel is currently preparing the feature documentary "Lòtbò", about the emigration of Haitians to the United States in 1980 and the fantasy of the American dream. "My name is Nina-Shakira" is his new feature film project, an adaptation of the novel "Les Immortelles" by Mackenzy Orcel. Samuel is president of the KIT association, a collective of Haitian photographers and filmmakers based in Port-au-Prince.

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Saleh Kashefi is an Iranian audiovisual artist currently living in Geneva, Switzerland. He started as a child actor at the age of 9 and by the age of 12 he was shooting his own films. He has made 13 short films that have been screened in more than 100 film festivals around the world and won 27 awards. He has participated in events such as Cannes, Berlinale, Biennale, Locarno, Visions du Réel and FIDMarseille. His films are made with zero budget and feature a mix between fiction and documentary. Kashefi tells stories that until now have not been told in Iranian cinema.

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Gretel Marín Palacio, Cuban filmmaker. Master in Documentary Film from the Paris Diderot University and BA in Film Directing from the University of the Arts of Cuba. Her short documentaries have been selected by several international festivals. "The Last Country" (2018), her first feature documentary, had its world premiere at the Málaga Film Festival and was selected in competition by the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Between 2014 and 2018 she collaborated as editor and director with the audiovisual production company Geração 80 in Luanda, Angola. She has also produced audiovisual materials for Mosaiko, a civil organization for human rights in Angola.

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Carlos Melián Moreno (Santiago de Cuba, 1979). Independent filmmaker and journalist. In 2010 he won the CINERGIA Fund for the production of his first short film "Pizza de Jamón" (2011). He participated with his feature film project "Regreso a Casa" in the Sundance Director's Lab, 2018. His latest fiction short, "El Rodeo", had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2021. He has worked as a screenwriter on the fiction short film "Tundra" (2021), directed by José Luis Aparicio, selected at Sundance and Locarno, and on the feature documentary "Mafifa" (2021), directed by Daniela Muñoz, which had its premiere at IDFA's Luminous section.

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Gloria Carrión is a Nicaraguan director, screenwriter and social scientist. In 2017, her debut documentary "Heiress of the Wind" had its world premiere at IDFA. Since then, it has been shown in more than 80 international film festivals, and won several awards. In 2019 she premiered her first fiction "Days of Light" at AFI Latin American Film Festival Gloria Carrión is a Nicaraguan director, screenwriter and social scientist. In 2017, her debut documentary "Heiress of the Wind" had its world premiere at IDFA. Since then, it has been shown in more than 80 international film festivals, and won several awards. In 2019 she premiered her first fiction "Days of Light" at the AFI Latin American Film Festival in Washington, D.C. The film was co-directed by five other Central American directors. In 2020 it was chosen among the 95 films preselected under the category of Best Foreign Film for the Academy Awards. Gloria has a Master in Documentary Filmmaking from Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Master in Development from the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. She is the founder of Caja de Luz and is currently developing her next documentary feature, a regional training platform and a video installation.

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Marcel Beltrán is a Cuban filmmaker currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. With film studies at EICTV (Cuba) and Concordia University (Canada), his films have screened internationally at festivals such as IDFA, Hot Docs, MoMA Doc Fortnight, DOC NYC, RIDM, FICG, Busan, DOK Leipzig, Málaga, among others. Founder of Mediocielo Films, professor at EICTV and Chavón | The School of Design, consultant for projects in development at international level and facilitator for sustainability in the arts.

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Luis Alejandro Yero is a Cuban filmmaker graduated in Documentary Directing from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) of Cuba. His short films have been awarded at Mar del Plata, FICUNAM and Havana, among others, in addition to being screened at more than a hundred festivals such as IDFA, Sheffield, Jihlava, Jeonju, Thessaloniki, Busan, Malaga, Olhar de Cinema, and cultural institutions such as the Lincoln Center in New York and the Cervantes Institute in several cities around the world. Since 2020 he coordinates the Documentary Department of the EICTV. His debut film "Calls from Moscow", had its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlinale 2023.

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Carla Valdés, Cuban documentary filmmaker. Graduated from the University of the Arts of Cuba in 2016. She was a member of the Mezcal Jury in the 30th Guadalajara International Film Festival, 2015, and a Member of the Board at Festival Muestra Joven, Cuba, between 2018 and 2020. She participated in Talents Guadalajara, 2022. She has directed the short documentary films: “The Pure Ones” (2021), which obtained the Coral Award for Best Documentary Short Film in the 42nd Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Cuba; and “December days” (2016), Award for Best Documentary at the Muestra Joven, Cuba. Her work has been exhibited at festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, and the U.S. Her feature-length documentary project "Ante el camino" was selected for the Academia de Cine Residencies, Spain, 2022-2023.

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Daniela Muñoz Barroso (Cuba, 1994). Documentary filmmaker, producer and photographer. Graduated in Cinematography at the University of the Arts of Cuba. Co-founder of the independent Cuban production company Estudio ST, with which she has produced the short films "Tundra", "The Rodeo", "The Rubber Boy" and, recently, "La Historia se escribe de noche" and "Blue", films selected at festivals such as Sundance, Rotterdam, Locarno, Ji.hlava, Bogoshorts, BAFICI, Miami, among others. His feature documentary "Mafifa" (77′, 2021), premiered in the Luminous section of IDFA and was selected in more than twenty festivals. She has also directed the short documentaries "Umbra" (10′, 2021), premiered at FICViña, Chile, with which he participated in the Open Doors Immersion program at the Locarno Film Festival, 2022, and "4 Hoyos", with world premiere at IDFA, 2023.

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Fernando Fraguela (Cuba, 1991). Graduated in Film Directing from the University of the Arts of Cuba in 2018 and in Documentary Video Production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2019. He wrote and directed the documentaries "El matadero", awarded Best Documentary at the Malaga Film Festival and the Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival; "Sueños al pairo" (2021), premiered at BAFICI and winner of the Best Cultural Representation Award at the Austral International Film Festival; and "Las desdichas de un hombre" (2019), Best Documentary at the Imago Festival. He wrote and directed the fiction short films "Ladridos" (2016), official selection at the Gibara International Film Festival, and "Un hombre" (2015), Best Short Film at the Muestra Audiovisual Almacén de la Imagen. His films have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia as part of various film festivals and events.

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Tommaso Santambrogio (Italy, 1992) is a film director and screenwriter from Milan. 
He lived and studied in Milan, Paris, Rome and Havana, where he attended the EICTV. He also studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti. He worked with several internationally renowned artists, such as Werner Herzog and Lav Diaz, with whom he directed in the Amazon, Cuba, and the Philippines, respectively. 
His latest short films, "The Last Scene" and "The Oceans Are The Real Continents", were presented at multiple international festivals and won several awards (Havana, Palm Springs, Toronto, Sydney, Cork, Barcelona, Split, etc.). Both short films were presented as world premieres at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival.
 His first feature film, also titled "The Oceans Are The Real Continents", premiered as the opening film at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice in 2023.

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Emmanuel Martín Hernández (Cuba, 1983). Emmanuel Martín Hernández (Cuba, 1983). Filmmaker, actor, journalist and chess teacher. With the exception of "Un homme sous son influence", filmed in Montreal, all his films have been made in his hometown, Santiago de Cuba. Among them are the short films "En el iglú" (2008) and "Buen viaje, Stalkers" (2011), as well as the feature film "Historias de ajedrez" (2019).

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Jhon Ciavaldini (Venezuela, 1986). Graduated in Social Communication from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Winner of the Ibermedia Scholarship to participate in the Diploma in Creative Documentary (UNIVALLE) with the French school Atelier Varan in Cali, Colombia. He studied the Master's Degree in Documentary Film at the Universidad del Cine, Argentina. In 2017, together with other students of the Universidad del Cine, he created La Cordillera Films. He’s developing his first feature film "Diaspora", winner of the Best Pitch Award at the 8th Acampadoc in Panama. He has made the short films "Bitácora" (2022), "Ventanas" (2021, World Premiere at BAFICI), "Reminiscencia" (2019), among others. (2022), “Ventanas” (2021, Premiere Mundial en BAFICI), “Reminiscencia” (2019), entre otros.