Daniel Saucedo

Daniel Saucedo is a filmmaker who founded a creative duo with Lucía Malandro in 2018 while studying at International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Their main objective was to rescue and creatively intervene with historical archives, both filmic and photographic. With academic training in theater and self-taught experience in visual arts, they use cinema to explore the theatricality and audiovisual resources with which political systems construct large and small historical fictions. After graduating from EICTV, Lucía and Daniel undertook the arduous task of rescuing the vast photographic and documentary collection contained in Cuban criminal archives.

During this work, they managed to safeguard thousands of unpublished photographs of Cuban history. This effort earned them a scholarship to pursue a master's degree in conservation and the formal and creative use of filmic archives at the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián. Throughout their five years of work, they have produced several audiovisual pieces that have been selected and exhibited at major international film festivals, including IDFA, True/ False Film Fest, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, FICUNAM, and FICValdivia, among others. Additionally, they created the collective Archivistas Salvajes, focused on establishing the first Archive of Amateur and Independent Cinema of Cuba, outside the state industry.

Lucía and Daniel's work has not been limited to film production. They have programmed and presented films from their archive "Los Subterráneos" at various renowned events such as the Orphan Film Symposium at NYU, the Cuban Film Cycle at the San Sebastián Film Festival, and the Cineteca de Madrid, among others. Lucía and Daniel remain dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of audiovisual heritage, contributing to the revaluation of history and culture through their creative interventions and commitment to independent cinema.

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