MADRID, Spain.- The young Cuban filmmaker Daniel Ross Diéguez (DaRoDe) recently won the Best Drama award at the Cannes World Film Festival with the feature film The wait.
According to the filmmaker’s own statements, the film, made by independent“is the first feature film from Guantanamo with only local talent.”
Through a post on Facebook held this Tuesday, Ross Diéguez thanked everyone who congratulated him and said he felt sad for not having the chance to collect the award, because he was in Cuba.
“I ask the support of the Cuban community or whoever is interested in collecting and picking up my gold statuette awarded by the Cannes World Film Festival. I have had the interest of UNESCO in Cuba and communication to process an express visa with the staff of the French embassy in Cuba but they tell me that for reasons of time it cannot be. Without a visa, of course, I cannot leave Cuba for the gala on May 16,” he explained.
In his post he also argued the importance that this statuette has for him. Among these reasons, he mentioned: “It is a tribute to those of us who make independent films from Cuba with nothing” and it is also a tribute “to great artists like his co-star, Ramón Moya, the only Guantanamo who at the end of the 80s had two works at MOMA New York and today he lives exactly as he appears in the movie.
the wait premiered at the Yale Latino and Ibero-American Festival, United States, on November 9, 2022. It has also been screened at the Lift-Off Global Network International Film Festival and at the Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions in the United Kingdom.
Daniel Ross Diéguez, 36, graduated from the Guantánamo Academy of Plastic Arts and the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center. His first film is the documentary we need to be heard (2010).
