The filmmaker Rolando Díaz will premiere in Tenerife, thanks to three screenings scheduled from January 16 to 18, his latest feature film, Goodbye Cubaa story about the exodus of Cubans and their testimonies from Spain.
Rolando Díaz lived in Tenerife for more than twenty years and promoted projects such as Rústico’s long journeythe first co-production between the Canary Islands and Cuba for which it was nominated for the Goya Awards in 1994.
Author also of works selected for the Toronto and Berlinale festivals, such as Melodrama and If you understood methe filmmaker born in Havana in 1947 continues to be linked to the archipelago through the CreaDoc Documentary Project Development Laboratory, which is supported by the regional government.
In statements to EFE The filmmaker, who currently resides in Valencia, announces the premiere of his latest project, Goodbye Cubain Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) from January 16 to 18, which will coincide with another audiovisual initiative.
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Thus, the stay in Tenerife of the creator of The birds shooting the shotgun It will also serve for Domingo de Luis, Canarian director and fellow producer at CreaDoc, to shoot images of his future documentary “In the Shadow of the World”, a project in which Rolando Díaz stars alongside Cuban filmmaker Fernando Pérez.
Goodbye Cuba won the Audience Award at the Trieste Latin American Film Festival in Italy last November. It has also been awarded second place in the Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival and, after its premiere in Tenerife, it will be screened on January 22 in Barcelona, recalls the Spanish agency.
