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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, ''
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'', prior to its release, in 2015. He is a graduate of the
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and also studied at the
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in
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. In 2019 he released a documentary on
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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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