Jose Luis Aparicio Ferrera
Director
José Luis Aparicio Ferrera (Cuba, 1994), independent filmmaker, critic and curator. He has directed short fiction and documentary films such as Tundra (2021), Sueños al pairo (2020) and El Secadero (2019). His films have screened at festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Miami, BAFICI, Guanajuato, Curta Cinema and Raindance. He has received awards at Fantaspoa, Pendance, New Jersey, New York City Independent, Seattle Latino, etc. As a critic and curator he created the Cine Cubano en Cuarentena (CCC) initiative, a collaborative effort aimed at the preservation, research and exhibition of the Cuban film legacy. For the Hannah Arendt Institute for Artivism (INSTAR) he curated the exhibition Land without images, the largest retrospective of alternative Cuban cinema to date, as part of the documenta fifteen in Kassel. He was invited to the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors program and was awarded one of the 2022 Prince Claus Seed Awards. He is currently working as director of the INSTAR Film Festival and is developing his first feature film, El mar, in an artistic residency granted by the Spanish Film Academy.
