José Luis Aparicio Ferrera

José Luis Aparicio Ferrera is an independent filmmaker and curator. Graduated in Film Directing from Cuba’s University of the Arts (ISA). He has directed the fiction short films Tundra (2021) and Dryland (2019), and the medium-length documentary Dreams adrift (2020). His films have been selected by festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Raindance, Miami, BAFICI, Guanajuato and Curta Cinema. Tundra was awarded at Fantaspoa, New Jersey, New York City Independent, Pendance, and Seattle Latino Film Festival. In 2022 he was invited to Locarno’s Open Doors program and received one of the Prince Claus Seed Awards. He is currently developing his first feature film, The Sea, a project selected by the Spanish Film Academy Residencies. As part of Kassel’s documenta fifteen, he curated Land Without Images, the largest retrospective of Cuban independent cinema to date. Since 2021 he has been the artistic director of the INSTAR Film Festival.