JOSÉ LUIS APARICIO

José Luis Aparicio Ferrera (Santa Clara, Cuba, 1994) is a Cuban filmmaker. He studied film directing at the Universidad de las Artes de Cuba. His fiction and documentary short films have screened at film festivals in Cuba, the United States, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Guatemala, and Chile. His short film El Secadero (2019) won the Best Fiction award at Panama’s Bannabáfest, received an Honorable Mention at Cinema Ciudad de México, and earned both Best Production and the Audience Award at Cuba’s Muestra Joven. His documentary Sueños al pairo (2020), co-directed with Fernando Fraguela, was censored by the ICAIC but went on to receive widespread critical acclaim and a strong public reception. In 2020, he launched the initiative Cuban Cinema in Quarantine (Cine Cubano en Cuarentena).