Katherine Bisquet
Director
Katherine Bisquet (Ciudad Nuclear, Cuba, 1992). Writer, documentary filmmaker and activist. B.A. in Spanish from the University of Havana. She has published the poetry books “Algo aquí se descompone” (Colección Sur Editores, Havana, 2014) and “Uranio empobrecido!” (Rialta Ediciones, Querétaro, Mexico, 2021). She has also directed the film “En San Isidro” (Inside San Isidro, short documentary, CCC Collective, 2023). Co-creator of Rialta Magazine’s column Cuban Cinema in Quarantine (CCC, 2020-2022), an initiative aimed at the research, preservation, and promotion of Cuban cinema. She was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2021/2022, Berlin, DE. Winner of the 2022 Ciudad de Alcalá Poetry Prize, Spain, with the poetry book “Esquizopatria”. Selected for one of the scholarships of the Florida International University program for threatened Cuban scholars in the humanities to carry out the literary project “La blanca memoria”. She currently resides in Madrid after being exiled from her country by the Cuban State Security.
