osé Luis Cubillo Fernández is from Madrid, Spain. His work as writer, cinematographer, and director focuses on production and screen plays for documentary and experimental film. As a writer, he naturally came to cinema through his love of literature.
His most recent collection of stories from his book “¿Y si no está aquí, dónde está?” (And If It’s Not Here, Where Is It?) have been published in literary journals in Spain, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina.
As a screenwriter, José’s “Nijinsky. Marriage with God”, a biography of the great Russian dancer Vatzlav Nijinsky, won Best Original Idea at the Global Motion Picture Awards (USA) festival in 2018.
And as director, his “Film in the style of Jafar Panahi” pays tribute to Iranian director Jafar Panahi and his film “This is not a movie.”