Lucía Malandro

The images stored in Cuba’s court archives contain the island's most jealously guarded secret: an alternative history in which non-conformists, misfits and dissidents also play a part. Led by Johnny, the keeper of the archives, they attempt to reconstruct the page that has been torn out of the History Book of the Revolution.

BIO
Lucía Malandro, a graduate in Directing from the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, Lucía Malandro is currently working on her master's thesis in Film Creation at the Elías Querejeta Film School in San Sebastián.

Since 2018, her work has focused on rescuing and intervening narratively and visually in historical film and photographic archives. Through film, she explores the theatricality and audiovisual means by which political systems construct historical fictions, both large and small.

After graduating from the EICTV, she and her creative partner, Daniel Saucedo, embarked on the arduous task of rescuing the immense collection of photographs and documentaries contained in the Cuban court archives, managing to salvage thousands of unpublished photographs and documents of Cuban history. During the course of their five years of working together, they have produced several audiovisual pieces, which have been selected and exhibited at important international film festivals.

She is currently involved in film research and rescue projects, such as Precine and Vanguardias Escópicas in collaboration with the Basque Film Library, Photomuseum, Gordailua and the Elías Querejeta Film School, and La Isla que se repite, a project to rescue and preserve post-revolutionary amateur and independent Cuban cinema together with Daniel Saucedo, Josué Gómez and Fabio Quintero.

Her two feature film projects, The Red House (La Casa Roja) and The Submerged Island (La Isla Sumergida), are currently in development.