Alejandro Alonso Estrella
Directing
Alejandro ALONSO ESTRELLA (1987, Cuba) is an award-winning short documentary filmmaker, who graduated in Documentary Direction from Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Havana. The Farewell (2014) had its world premiere at IDFA and amongst other prizes, won Best Documentary at Gibara Film Festival. His first feature documentary, The Project (2017), premiered at Visions du Réel and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at DOK Leipzig. During 2017 and 2019, Alonso Estrella coordinated the Alternative Cinema master programme at EICTV. In 2021 he was selected as a Resident of the Spanish Film Academy to work on the writing of The Star.
Known for
Behind the camera10
- 2024History Is Written at Night Director
- 2021Abyssal Director, Cinematography
- 2021Terranova Director, Cinematography, Editor
- 2019Home Director
- 2018Metatron Director
- 2017The Project Director
- 2017Duel Director
- 2014Candles Director, Editor, Cinematography
- 2014The Farewell Director
- TBABahía Honda Director, Writer, Director of Photography