2023-12-04 18:04:44
Cuban filmmaker Daniel Diez Castrillo, a prominent documentary filmmaker and sound engineer, died at the age of 77 in Havana, confirmed on Facebook by the vice president of the Institute of Information and Social Communication of Cuba, Onelio Castillo.
“Painful loss for the audiovisual universe of Cuba: Daniel Diez Carrillo, journalist, documentary filmmaker, television director, teacher of several generations of filmmakers, has died,” he published on his page on that social network.
Daniel-Diez-Catrillo. Among other recognitions, he received the Distinction for National Culture (1996) and the National Television Award for his lifetime work (2015). Taken from Prensa Latina
The official described him as a thorough man, committed to his time and his culture, and extended his deepest condolences to family and friends on behalf of that institution.
Until recently, already very ill, he taught film courses to students of the Journalism program at the University of Havana and participated in other teaching tasks, organized by the Santiago Álvarez Office, reported the Cuban filmmaker, screenwriter and poet Jorge Fuentes, also on their Facebook page.
In January 1993, Diez Castrillo founded Televisión Serrana in the town of San Pablo de Yao, in the Buey Arriba municipality, in the eastern province of Granma, a project that made the life of the inhabitants of the Sierra Maestra visible to Cuba and the world. .
According to what he told Cubacine, this participatory and community center had as its embryo his participation as a brigade member in the Literacy Campaign in 1961 in the largest mountain range of the Caribbean island, which showed him how the people of those isolated areas of the country live.
Added to these experiences was his 16-year experience working as a sound engineer for the Noticiero Icaic Latinoamericano, alongside the award-winning Cuban documentary filmmaker Santiago Álvarez, with whom he toured the Antillean nation and made him understand the need that these people have to be known, “because only then “They would perceive how important they are to the identity of the nation.”
He participated along with other filmmakers in about 20 works for Cuban cinema and television and around another 30 were his authorship during his stay at Televisión Serrana, a project to which he dedicated a large part of his life and which, due to its relevance, received support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
This center helped develop an entire cinematographic movement of a high creative level, in which the preparation process of the students of the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños was inserted and contributed to the cinematography of the Latin American indigenous movement.
Respected and admired among Cuban intellectuals and artists, for his merits as a film and television director, sound recorder and musician, teacher and writer, Daniel Diez Castrillo was awarded the Distinction for National Culture (1996) and the National Prize for Television for the work of a lifetime (2015).
Taken from Prensa Latina
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