Rodrigo Barriuso (born 1988) is a Cuban-Canadian filmmaker, most noted as co-director with his brother Sebastián Barriuso of the film ''

A Translator ''A Translator'' ( es, Un Traductor) is a 2018 Cuban docudrama directed by Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso. It was selected as Cuba's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film at t ...

(Un traductor)'', Born in 1988 in

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, Barriuso moved to Canada in the late 2000s to study film at

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. His short film '' For Dorian'' premiered at the Ryerson University Film Festival, the annual festival of short films by Ryerson film students; it later won the juried award for Best Canadian Film at the 2013

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, and was co-winner with

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's '' East Hastings Pharmacy'' of the 2013 Lindalee Tracey Award. ''A Translator'' premiered at the

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. The Barriuso brothers won the

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at the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival, and the film was selected as the official Cuban entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2019.Erik Pedersen
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''

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'', October 7, 2019. Barriuso remains based in

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, where he is a Spanish studies instructor at

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* 1988 births Living people Cuban film directors Cuban emigrants to Canada Film directors from Toronto Academic staff of Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto Metropolitan University alumni People from Havana {{Canada-film-director-stub