Rolando Díaz is a Cuban filmmaker who has written and directed documentary and feature films.. He directed about 19 documentary films. In 1984 he made his first feature film, the comedy Los pájaros tirándole a la escopeta ("Birds Swinging a Shotgun").[1] The film received several Cuban and international awards.[2] Cuba's Audiovisual Encyclopedia describes is as one of the most popular films in the history of Cuban filmmaking.[3] Many of his later films, despite international success, until 2010s were allowed limited screening in Cuba.[1]
Since 1994 he lives on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.[1] He gave a video interview to Cuban journalist Wendy Lazacano.[4]
Filmography
- La respuesta del pueblo (1976), short documentary
- En el tiempo preciso (1977), short documentary
- Festival Nacional de la Juventud y los Estudiantes (1977), short documentary
- Momentos del Cardín (1977), short documentary
- Medellín min78 (1978), short documentary
- 45 días (1978), short documentary
- 1979: Encuentro en Cozumel, short documentary
- 1979: Redonda y viene en caja cuadrada, short documentary
- 1979: Panamá quererte, short documentary
- 1980: Quincho Barrilete, short documentary
- 1981: Controversia, short documentary
- 1981: No van lejos los de alante... si los de atrás corren bien, short documentary
- 1981: Tu gigantesco paso de millones, short docukentary
- 1982: Del uno al diez, short documentary
- 1982: Para gusto se han hecho los colores, documentary short
- 1984: Los pájaros tirándole a la escopeta
- 1985: En tres y dos
- 1987: Emilio Varela vs. Camelia la Texana, documentary
- 1989: La vida en rosa
- 1993: El largo viaje de Rústico, documentary
- 1995: Melodrama
- If You Only Understood (Si me comprendieras) (1998)
- Closeness (Cercanía) (2004)
- 2007: La vida según Ofelia with Saida Santana and Carlos Cruz
- 2007: Actrices, actores, exilio (documentary)
- 2010: Puzzle
- 2013: Los caminos de Aissa (docudrama)
- Dossier of the Absences or The Lost Children "Dossier de ausencias” República Dominicana, docudrama (2021)
- 'Una elefanta sobre la tela de una araña (2022)