Profile
Héctor Almeida is a filmmaker and editor based in Cuba. Héctor's practice stems from a sensibility that eschews binary classifications of art and cinema, opting instead for a porous, unidentifiable territory where images circulate between languages, bodies, and devices.
In 2023, Héctor made his directorial debut with "Para Esteban", a cinematic letter about family memory that was selected for more than 70 international festivals, including the Lebu International Film Festival, a qualifier for the Oscars and Goya Awards, and received the Funespaña Award at the Visualízame en tu memoria competition. In 2024, he participated in DIP (Documentary, Intimacy, and Stagin), an annual international laboratory for filmmakers directed by Manuel Abramovic, and he was selected for Euro CineLab, organized by the European Union in Cuba under the tutelage of filmmaker Xavier Solano, where he developed “Ejercicio visual para una despedida” (Visual Exercise for a Farewell).
Héctor is also developing the documentary art game “El niño de fuego que no pudo volar” (The Aflame Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), which emerged from a process at the Incubator for Projects in Development of the Documentary Chair at the International Film and TV School (EICTV), and was later part of the workshop “Video Games, Games, and Contemporary Arts” at the MediaLab of the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, for which he received the Latinx In Gaming Grant 2025.
