Director's bio:

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).