Lázaro J. González González (Cuba,1990) Ph.D. candidate on Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Graduated in Journalism from the School of Communications at the University of Havana, and graduated from International Workshops in the International School of Cinema, in San Antonio de los Baños. Directed the short film Padre nuestro (Our Father), 2011; Margot (2013); Del fango a la fe (From Filth to Faith) (2013); Tatá (2014). His documentary Máscaras (Masks) is distributed by Icarus Films and Americas Media Initiative in USA. His feature film Villa rosa (Pink Village) (2016) was distinguished recently by a grant from the Sparring Partners Fund, based in Italy, for the development of audiovisual projects in the Caribbean, the Norwegian Fund for Cuban Cinema, and AMI’s Closing Distances Award. He is working now in Sexile, a feature documentary about the Cuban queer diaspora in USA.
