DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
LÁZARO J. GONZÁLEZ

HOST:
JOSÉ LUIS APARICIO FERRERA


Synopsis:

Cuban filmmaker and researcher Lázaro J. González, whose most recent short film, Parole (2024), is part of the competition at the 5th INSTAR Film Festival, delves into his career as a documentary filmmaker and cultural manager. Lázaro talks to us about the creative processes of his films Máscaras (2015), Villa Rosa (2016) and Pāndèmos (2021), as well as Sexilio, his next feature film in progress. He also tells us about his studies regarding queer cinema produced in Cuba and other regions of the Caribbean.

Bio:

Lázaro J. González is a Cuban filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley. He holds a Master of Arts in Literature, Cultures, and Languages from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Havana. He also honed his craft through training programs at the EICTV of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, and the Sundance Documentary Lab. In 2022, González served as a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen's University. He has directed the shorts Tatá (2014), Masks (2015), and Pāndèmos (2021), and feature film Pink Village (2016), which received the Best Documentary Award at Yale's Latino and Iberian Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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"Cinema" Series: The Cinema of Lázaro J. González

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