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Filmmaker · Cuba

Nicolás Guillén Landrián

Died in 2003

Nicolás Guillén Landrián was born in Camagüey in 1938, nephew of the poet Nicolás Guillén. With Sara Gómez and Sergio Giral, he is counted among the Black filmmakers of the Cuban film institute. Accused in 1968, interrogated for six months at Villa Marista and imprisoned several times, he was expelled from the institute in 1971. He reached Miami in 1989, shot his last film, Inside Downtown, there in 2001, and died on 23 July 2003; he lies in the Colón cemetery in Havana.

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