Lynn Cruz(I)

Cuban actress, writer, and film producer. Licensed in Pedagogy at the University of Matanzas (2000) Studied Dramatic Theater Professional School (2004-2006). After five years working in theater plays in Cuba, Colombia and Germany, her feature film debut was in the role of Barbara in the film Larga distancia (2010), a role for which she received critical acclaim in Cuban press and was nominated for a Caricato Award. She then was cast as the lead in the award winning science fiction film Corazón azul (2021), which shot over a decade. She also performed in the films La pared (2006), Próceres (2011), Nadie (2017). She won an award in Le Cayenne Film Festival in New York in her lead role in the Venezuelan film El Niño (2015),. Her role in Is That You? (2018) was hailed by The New Herald as "a masterful performance".

Additionally she is a stage director responsible for writing and directing the plays: The Return (2011), The Enemies of the People (2017), Patriotismo 36-77 (2018), and Sala-R (2021). Since 2013 she became a producer of Miguel Coyula's films, Psique, Nadie and Corazón Azul. In 2020 she became a recipient of the Documentary Impact Producers Fund.

In 2022 she won the Franz Kafka award in the Czech Republic for her book "Crónica Azul" which documents the decade spent on making the film Corazón azul (2021)

She is the protagonist of the award winning documentary Crónicas del absurdo (2024) which documents her censorship in Cuba.