# Eduardo del Llano Rodríguez **Date of birth:** October 9, 1962 **Categories:** Arts, film, actor, narrator, screenwriter, director Cuban actor, narrator, screenwriter, and director. Founder and director of the literary and theatrical creation group NOS-Y-OTROS. He was born in Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, on October 9, 1962. He lives in Havana. He studied at the Lenin Vocational School. He earned a degree in Art History from the University of Havana in 1985. Cinematographic work: – Screenwriter of Alicia en el pueblo de maravillas by Daniel Díaz Torres (ICAIC, 1991). Catholic Jury Award and Peace Prize at the Berlinale, 1991. – Screenwriter of brief jokes for filminutos (animation) numbers 25, 29, 34, 48, 49, 59 (ICAIC). – Screenwriter of Kleines Tropikana by Daniel Díaz Torres (ICAIC-BMG, 1997). Special Jury Prize at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in 1997, Audience Award at IFFI Innsbruck 1998. Nominated for the Goya Awards as best foreign Spanish-language film in 1997. – Screenwriter of La vida es silbar by Fernando Pérez (ICAIC, 1998). Screenplay awarded at the Sundance Institute in January 1998. The film won, among other awards, a Goya for best foreign Spanish-language film in 2000. – Screenwriter of Hacerse el sueco by Daniel Díaz Torres (ICAIC-KINOWELT, 2000). Audience Award at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, 2000. – Screenwriter of Dalí Salvador? by Fernando Timossi (video, 2001). – Screenwriter of Perfecto Amor equivocado by Gerardo Chijona (ICAIC-Wanda Films, 2004). – Director and screenwriter of Monte Rouge (fiction short film, digital, Sex Machine producciones, 2004). – Director and screenwriter of High Tech (fiction short film, digital, Sex Machine producciones, 2005). Awards for best editing and sound at the Cineplaza Festival 2005. – Director and screenwriter of Photoshop (fiction short film, digital, Sex Machine producciones, 2006). – Director and screenwriter of Homo Sapiens (fiction short film, digital, Sex Machine Producciones, 2006). – Screenwriter of Madrigal by Fernando Pérez (ICAIC-Wanda Films, 2006). Best Screenplay Award at the International Festival of Latin American Cinema Los Angeles 2007. – Screenwriter of Óscar: una pasión surrealista by Lucas Fernández (Spain-USA-France, 2008). Best Film and Best Male Performance Award at the Porto festival, 2008. Best Screenplay Award at the Latin American Cinema Festival of Paris 2008. – Director and screenwriter of Intermezzo (fiction short film, digital, Sex Machine Producciones, 2008). Selected for the "La hora del corto" section at the XXX International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2008. – Director and screenwriter of Brainstorm (fiction short film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2009). Special Jury Award from the Foreign Press and Special Mention from the Fiction Jury for best direction of actors and best screenplay at the VII International Festival of Poor Cinema, Gibara, Cuba, 2009. Selected by the Cuban Association of Film Press as the best short film of 2009. Best short film at the X Lebu Film Festival, Chile, 2010. Honorable mention for dialogue and direction of actors at the VIII Digital Film Festival, Viña del Mar, Chile 2010. – Screenwriter of Lisanka by Daniel Díaz Torres (ICAIC – Mosfilm of Russia – Nativa Productora Audiovisual of Venezuela, 2009). Best Screenplay Award and Audience Award at the IV International Festival of Cuenca, Ecuador, 2010. – Director and screenwriter of Cubanos en primer plano: Sidra Casanova (fiction short film, digital, Sex Machine Producciones, 2009). – Director, screenwriter, and producer of GNYO (documentary feature film, digital, Sex Machine Producciones, 2009). Selected for the "Made in Cuba" section at the XXXI International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2009. – Director and screenwriter of Pas de Quatre (fiction short film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2009). Selected for the "Made in Cuba" section at the XXXI International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2009. – Director and screenwriter of Aché (fiction short film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2010). First prize for Audiovisual at the Aquelarre Festival 2010. Selected for official competition at the XXXII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2010. – Director and screenwriter of Pravda (fiction short film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2010). First prize for Audiovisual at the Aquelarre Festival 2010. Selected for the "Made in Cuba" section at the XXXII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2010. – Director and screenwriter of Exit (fiction medium-length film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2011). Honorable mention for best short film at the Cinesul festival of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013. – Director and screenwriter of Vinci (fiction feature film, HD, ICAIC 2011). Best Foreign Feature Film Screenplay Award and Honorable Mention for Best Music at the 40 Gramado Festival, Brazil, 2012. – Director and screenwriter of Democrac (documentary short film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2011). – Director and screenwriter of La verdad acerca del G2 (fiction medium-length film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2012). Selected for the "Made in Cuba" section at the XXXII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2012. – Director and screenwriter of Peña (documentary feature film, Sex Machine Producciones, 2012). – Screenwriter of La película de Ana by Daniel Díaz Torres (ICAIC – SK Films of Austria, 2012). Award from the Circle of Cultural Journalists of UPEC, distribution award from Amazonia Films, and Coral Awards for Best Female Performance and Best Screenplay at the 34 International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2012. Selected as the best Cuban film of 2012 by the Film Press Association. Best Female Performance Award at Ceará 2013. Pre-nominated for the 2013 Goya Awards. Best film at the VII Film Festival of the Sea, Uruguay 2014. – Director and screenwriter of Casting (fiction medium-length film, HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2013). Coral Award for Best Short Film at the 35 International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana 2013. Selected by the Cuban Association of Film Press as the best short film of 2013. – Director and screenwriter of Omega 3 (fiction feature film, 2k, ICAIC 2014). Selected for official competition at the 35 FANTASPORTO (Portugal, 2015), the 24 IFFI (Austria, 2015), the 15 ToHorror Film Fest 2015 (Italy, 2015), Hemoglozine 2015 (Spain), and Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre 2015 (Argentina, 2015), where Dailenys Fuentes obtained a Mention for Best Performance. – Director and screenwriter of No somos nada (fiction short film, full HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2014). – Director and screenwriter of Arte (fiction short film, full HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2015). – Director and screenwriter of Épica (fiction short film, full HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2015). Selected for official competition at the 37 International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Havana, 2015). – Director and screenwriter of La leyenda de los Abominables Hombres de Confianza (fiction short film – mockumentary, full HD, Sex Machine Producciones, 2016). Published literary work: – Aventuras del caballero del Miembro Encogido (novel, in collaboration with NOS-Y-OTROS) Abril publishing, 1993. – Los doce apóstatas (novel) Letras Cubanas publishing, 1994. – Basura y otros desperdicios (short story, in collaboration with Luis Felipe Calvo) Letras Cubanas publishing, 1994. – Virus (novel, in collaboration with Luis Felipe Calvo) Abril publishing, 1994. – Cuentos de relaxo I and II (short story, in collaboration with NOS-Y-OTROS) Abril publishing, 1992. – Nostalgia de la babosa (poetry) Abril publishing, 1993. – El elefantico verde (short stories and fables for children) Abril publishing, 1993. – Criminales (science fiction short stories) Abril publishing, 1994. – La clessidra di Nicanor (novel) Giunti publishing, Firenze, Italy, 1997. – El beso y el plan (short story) Letras Cubanas publishing, 1997. – Obstáculo (novel) Letras Cubanas publishing, 1997. – Un libro sucio (short story, in collaboration with Luis Felipe Calvo) Capiro publishing, Santa Clara, 1998. – Cabeza de ratón (short story) Abril publishing, 1998. – Los viajes de Nicanor (short story) Extramuros publishing, Havana, 2000. – Die kubanische Filmkomödie (compiler, coeditor and author of one of the essays) Studien Verlag, Innsbruck, Austria, 2001. – Tres (novel) La Novela collection, Letras Cubanas publishing, 2002. Reissued as Drei by Skarabaeus Verlag, Innsbruck, Austria, 2007. – Todo por un dólar (short story) Miniletras series of H. Kliczkowski publishing, Madrid, Spain, 2006. – El universo de al lado (novel) Salto de Página publishing, Madrid, Spain, 2007. – Unplugged (short story) Gran Via publishing, Milan, Italy, 2008. – Sex Machine (short story) El Cuento collection, Letras Cubanas publishing, 2010. – Anodino y la lámpara maravillosa (theater, in composition of NOS-Y-OTROS) Alarcos publishing, 2010. – Herejía (short story) Capiro publishing, Santa Clara, 2012. – Cuarentena (novel) Letras Cubanas publishing, 2012. – Ocio y medio (novel) Isla de Libros editions, Bogotá, Colombia, 2013. – Bonsai (novel) Unión Editions, 2014. – Omega 3 (short story) Letras Cubanas publishing, 2016. I have been included in various national and foreign anthologies. My short stories have appeared in publications from Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. I was a professor of Latin American Art History and History of Photography at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, from 1990 to 1995. I have taken workshops on screenwriting with specialists Jorge Goldenberg (Argentina), Tom Abrams, and Walter Bernstein (USA) at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba), during 1995-96. At the same center I was hired as a consultant and advisor for the final works of directing students (2003, 2004). I have taught courses on screenwriting in Managua (Nicaragua) in February 2000, and New York (USA) in October 2000. I have advised the theses of directing students at the International School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, from 2003 to 2005. I was hired as a professional screenwriter in Tenerife, Spain, in 2005-06. I have obtained, among others, the Abril awards (1988, 1992), Italo Calvino (1996, in Italy), AHS Calendar (1997), the Revolución y Cultura Short Story Prize (1998), the Fantoche Award for Police Short Stories (2015). At the 12 Poor Cinema Festival of Gibara (April 20-24, 2016) I won the Special Jury Award for Unpublished Screenplay granted by the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective (BFC) for Best Unpublished Feature Film Fiction Screenplay, for my screenplay Making. Founder and director of the literary and theatrical creation group NOS-Y-OTROS, from 1982 until its dissolution in 1997. As a member of the group, I performed in numerous theaters throughout Cuba. I have participated in film festivals in Innsbruck (Austria), Locarno, and Fribourg (Switzerland), Munich and Frankfurt (Germany), Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), Cannes (France), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Isola (Slovenia), Santiago and Viña del Mar (Chile), Gramado (Brazil), Porto (Portugal). In March 2002, I was part of the International Jury of the Fribourg festival. In June 2003, I was part of the International Jury of the Innsbruck Festival.