Guillermo Rocamora (born 1981) is a Uruguayan filmmaker.
[ He first started working as a filmmaker in 2004. He worked for three years on his directorial debut, '']Solo
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'', prior to its release, in 2015. He is a graduate of the Universidad de la República
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and also studied at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (Spanish), abbreviated EICTV - (The International Film and TV School) - was founded on December 15, 1986, by Colombian journalist and writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cuban theoreticians and filmmakers Julio Garcí ...
in Cuba
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In 2019 he released a documentary on Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan
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, one of six individuals formerly held in the Guantanamo detention camps for a dozen years, who were granted political asylum in Uruguay in 2014.[ That documentary, '' La Libertad es una palabra grande'', won the award for best documentary at the International Film Week in Valladolid.
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Uruguayan film directors
1981 births
Living people