Amir Aether Valen
1995 (30 лет)While being Film Production student at the University of the West Indies, Amir's student short documentary film “Who I Say I Am” was projected at the 2016 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival where it won the “United Nations Award for Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker” and also the award of “Best Trinidad & Tobago Short Documentary Film”.
In 2017 Amir was chosen from among 215 applicants in 24 countries to be a part of the 27th Generation of students at one of the most renowned film schools in the world, Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba; where he completed the Curso Regular programme of 3 years, specializing in the field of Documentary Film Direction. Amir was 1 of 8 students to have been granted a scholarship provided by the Cuomo Foundation.
In his time at EICTV he has created over 15 short films, one of which was filmed at the Sierra Maestra - the largest mountain range in Cuba, and some of which have competed both locally and internationally at film festivals; most notably - Sheffield DocFest.
As a creative professional, Amir has worked for organisations such as Trinidad & Tobago Television, Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, University of the West Indies, Nature Seekers, among other independent clients.
Outside of audiovisual content creation Amir has been a martial arts and self-defence instructor for over 15 years. He also currently operates as the Coordinator of International Workshops in the Department of Documentary at the EICTV, in addition to working as a part-time Spanish translator and floral caretaker at a local flower market.
Recoger El Viento
Amir Aether Valen
Mario Anthony Montero Durand, Keilan Durand Rodríguez
A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of his daily life as he interacts with different forms of environmental, familial, and social influences. While Anthony displays contradictory traits of creativity, destruction, rigidity, and tenderness as he interacts with his external and internal worlds, we see a story built from the the multidimensionality of Anthony's layered personality as a young man.
Pick up the Wind
El Susurro de las Hojas
Amir Aether Valen
Beneranda Zarabaza Cordero, Isidro Pérez Almaguer
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.
The Whisper of the Leaves
Flotando en el Río del Tiempo
Amir Aether Valen
Pedro García Pineda, Nersa Zayas Leyva
A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists, while he comes to an understanding of his physical mortality and becomes aware of his spiritual immortality.
Floating in the River of Time
