Carlos Quintela
Carlos Quintela
Born in Havana in 1984. Director, screenwriter, script consultant and producer. In his teenage years, Carlos was already passionate for cinema and created an illegal video rental store, renting VHS door-to-door in his neighborhood. In doing so, he learned the art of pitching and understood how to do business inside a totalitarian regime. Quintela studied Accounting, Mass Media and then Screenplay at the EICTV International Film School of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. His first feature film The Swimming Pool had its debut in the Panorama section of the 63rd Berlinale and won more than ten awards around the globe. The Project of the Cen-tury, his second feature film, won more than fifteen awards, including the Lions Film Award and the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2015. Furthermore, the Cuban Critics Association selected it as the best film of the decade 2010 – 2019. His third feature film, The Wolves of the East (2017), featured Tatsuya Fuji (The Empire of the Senses) and was co-produced by Naomi Kawase. A filmmaker with experience in short films, feature films, web series, and documentaries, he has also worked as a script consultant, cinema teacher, editor, festival juror, film columnist, and after COVID recovered his passion for painting. Quintela has also co-written several short films, documentaries and feature films with directors from the UK, Germany, Argentina, including the feature film Candelaria, directed by Colombian Jhonny Hendrix, awarded in Venice (2017). In Madrid Quintela together with his colleagues from Cuba founded Free Hundred Media, a production company focused on producing cinema and virtual reality projects.