Alejandro Alonso Estrella (1987, Cuba) graduated in Documentary Direction from Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV). His short documentaries have won awards at many festivals. The Farewell (2014) had its world premiere at IDFA. Duel (2016) was premiered at Cinema du Réel; it won the prize for the best short film at the 32 Film Festival of Mar del Plata and for the best short film at the 58 Festival of Poppoli. His first feature documentary, The Project (2017), premiered at Visions du Réel and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at DOK Leipzig. Terranova (2021) won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award in Rotterdam. During 2017 and 2019, coordinated the Alternative Cinema Master programme at EICTV.
Bahía Colectiva is a community of filmmakers who collaborate in cinematic practice and curation. In collectivity, we share our learnings, our inspirations, our successes, and our losses. Together, we experiment with cinematic languages and dismantle dominating modes of production. We look for forms of resistance through our exchange and the communal dissection of socio-political issues, and aim to take part in the work towards demarginalizing independent, essayistic and experimental cinema. Our work is driven by a process of questioning and centers on themes including, but not limited to: borders, immigration, trees, memory, ghosts, demons, forensics, ancestral connections, landscapes as protagonists, physical and virtual realities, the dark web, land vs territory, exile, decoloniality, gender, our mothers, our grandmothers and waves.
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