Francisco Prats

Cuban film producer. National Film Award 2020.

Graduate in drawing and painting from the Academy of San Alejandro. In 1963 he began working at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) as a quality reviewer in Animated Drawings.

Since 1964 he held the position of Producer. He was production coordinator and director of the ICAIC's Animated Drawings Department. He was also Director of Post-production. He worked as a Producer in the ICAIC Animation Studios until his death.

He has offered courses and lectures in Cuba and abroad to students specializing in Animation. He has to his credit the production of more than one hundred animated drawings. He has served as a Jury member in different film festivals, both national and international.

Filmography
1965: A Dream in the Park.
1967: The Poet and the Doll.
1974: An Adventure of Elpidio Valdés.
1975: The Dirty Little Dwarf.
1976: The Hands.
Elpidio Valdés Against the New York Police.
Clarín Mambi.
1980: Filminute 2 (Animated Short).
Filminute 1 (Animation Short).
1981: Filminute 3 (Animated Short).
1982: Long Live Papi! (Animated Short).
1983: Elpidio Valdés Against Dollar and Cannon (Animated Feature). Dir. Juan Padrón.
The Tremulous and Solitary Soul (Animated Short).
1984: An American Legend (Animated Short).
The Bohío (Animated Short).
1985: Vampires in Havana! (Animated Feature). Dir. Juan Padrón.
1986: Kinoscope 2 Vampires in Havana. Dir. Juan Padrón.
Aborigines (Animated Short).
1987: That Woman of So Many Stars.
Kinoscope 6 (Animated Short).
Let's Start Over.
Kinoscope 4 (Animated Short).
Kinoscope 3 (Animated Short).
1988: Kinoscope 5 (Animated Short).
Form in Space.
Filminute 15 (Animated Short).
One More Among Them.
October of '67.
Moments of Tina.
Between Legends.
1994: Mafalda (Animated Feature).
1997: Masks / Masquets / Mask (Animated Short). Dir. Elisa Rivas.
Filminute 36 (Animated Short).
1998: Filminute 41 (Animated Short).
Filminute 42 (Animated Short).
1999: Against the Eagle and the Lion (Animated Feature).
Filminute 43 (Animated Short).
Filminute 45 (Animated Short).
2002: More Vampires in Havana (Animated Feature). Dir. Juan Padrón.
Filminutes Filminutes. Dir. (Animated Shorts. No. 51, 52, 53 and 54).
Estela Cinnamon Grain (Animation Video Clip).
Getting to Know Martí. Memories of Hanábana (Animated Short). Dir. Ernesto Padrón and Juan Padrón.
For the Curious (Animated Drawings Series. Produced 10 titles).
2003: Elpidio Valdés Attacks Trancalapuerta (Animated Short).
My Gentleman (Animated Short).
History of Things: The Computer (Animated Short).
Getting to Know Martí. The Prison (Animated Short).
The Tree of Life (Animated Short).
2004: Dream (Animated Short).
Naughty Nené (Animated Short). Dir. Alexander Rodríguez.
The Little Black Cimarron and the Marquis's Silk (Animated Short).
History of Bees: The Journey (Animated Short).
Sisters: Getting to Know Martí (Animated Short).
Filminutes (Animated Shorts. No. 57, 58 and 59).
Notes for a History (Animated Short).
The Legend of Osaín (Animated Short).
2005: Filminute 62 (Animated Short).
2006: The Little Black Cimarron: The Matungos (Animated Short). Dir. Tulio Raggi.
Kukuy, the Water Sprite of the Blue Pond: The Green Almiquí. Dir. Juan Ruiz.
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Awards and Recognition
Raúl Gómez García Order awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.
National Film Award 2020. [1]