Lázaro J. González González
- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Independent director, audiovisual producer, and writer. Master in Art in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages from the University of Connecticut and Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the School of Communications at the University of Havana, and graduated from International Workshops in the International School of Cinema, San Antonio de Los Baños, and the Sundance Documentary Lab.
Directed the short film Padre Nuestro (Our Father), 2011; Margot (2013); From Filth to Faith (2013); Tatá (2014), and Pandèmos (2021). His documentary Máscaras (Masks) was distributed by Icarus Films and Americas Media Initiative to several universities and film festivals in the United States.
His full-length documentary film Villa Rosa (2016) was recently distinguished by a grant from the Sparring Partners Fund, based in Italy, for developing audiovisual projects in the Caribbean, the Norwegian Fund for Cuban Cinema, and AMI's Closing Distances Award. Villa Rosa also won the Best Documentary Award at the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale, and Audience Award at the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Together with audiovisual production, Lázaro González has been working as a freelance film critic for publications such as Enfoco, Bisiesto, and Cine Cubano. He was also the co-founder of Encuadre, the Cuban Audiovisual Production Network, and Confluencias del Lente, initiatives created to promote independent Cuban cinema. He is also a curator of Cine Latino at Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies.
Directed the short film Padre Nuestro (Our Father), 2011; Margot (2013); From Filth to Faith (2013); Tatá (2014), and Pandèmos (2021). His documentary Máscaras (Masks) was distributed by Icarus Films and Americas Media Initiative to several universities and film festivals in the United States.
His full-length documentary film Villa Rosa (2016) was recently distinguished by a grant from the Sparring Partners Fund, based in Italy, for developing audiovisual projects in the Caribbean, the Norwegian Fund for Cuban Cinema, and AMI's Closing Distances Award. Villa Rosa also won the Best Documentary Award at the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale, and Audience Award at the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Together with audiovisual production, Lázaro González has been working as a freelance film critic for publications such as Enfoco, Bisiesto, and Cine Cubano. He was also the co-founder of Encuadre, the Cuban Audiovisual Production Network, and Confluencias del Lente, initiatives created to promote independent Cuban cinema. He is also a curator of Cine Latino at Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies.
