Guillermo Rocamora
Born1981 (age 42–43)
NationalityUruguayan
Occupationfilmmaker
Known forwon awards for directing documentaries

Guillermo Rocamora (born 1981) is a Uruguayan filmmaker.[1] He first started working as a filmmaker in 2004. He worked for three years on his directorial debut, Solo, prior to its release, in 2015. He is a graduate of the Universidad de la República and also studied at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba.

In 2019 he released a documentary on Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan, one of six individuals formerly held in the Guantanamo detention camps for a dozen years, who were granted political asylum in Uruguay in 2014.[2][3][4][5] That documentary, La Libertad es una palabra grande, won the award for best documentary at the International Film Week in Valladolid.

References

  1. ↑ Claudio D. Minghetti (3 July 2015). "El director Guillermo Rocamora habla de "Solo", su ópera prima" [Director Guillermo Rocamora talks about "Solo", his debut feature]. Telam (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. ↑ Ramiro Barreiro (1 November 2019). "El largo regreso a casa de Mohammed" [Mohammed's long homecoming]. El País (in Spanish). Montevideo. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Para los exdetenidos de Guantánamo 'la libertad es una palabra grande'" [For Guantánamo ex-detainees 'freedom is a big word']. El Comercio (in Spanish). 1 August 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "La historia de uno de los ex presos de Guantanamo en Uruguay llega al cine" [The story of one of the former prisoners of Guantanamo in Uruguay reaches the cinema]. El Observador (in Spanish). 15 November 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "'Liberdade é uma grande palavra' mostra vida pós-prisão de ex-detento de Guantánamo" ['Freedom is a big word' shows post-prison life of ex-Guantanamo detainee]. Jornal do Comércio (in Spanish). 20 December 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
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