Amir Aether Valen
Nacimiento : 1995-03-15, Mount Hope, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago
Historia
A Trinidadian-born audiovisual storyteller who explores the mirrors to man’s being we find in nature, and reflects on the psychospiritual nature of the self through poetic, meditative, and contemplative pieces of art that follow human relationships with both their internal and external worlds.
While studying at the University of the West Indies, his student short documentary film project "Who I Say I Am" was presented at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival in 2016 where it won the United Nations Award for Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker, as well as the award of Best Trinidad & Tobago Short Documentary Film.
In 2017 he was chosen from among 215 applicants in 24 countries to be a part of the 27th Generation of students at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba, where he completed the Curso Regular programme of 3 years - specializing in the field of Documentary Film Direction. He was 1 of 8 students to have been granted a scholarship provided by the Cuomo Foundation of Monaco.
In his time at EICTV he has created over 15 short films, one of which was filmed at the Sierra Maestra - the largest mountain range in Cuba, and some of which have competed both locally and internationally at renowned film festivals such as Sheffield DocFest.
In 2022 Amir has been a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus - delivering the course "Cinemas of Latin America" to the students of the B.A. Film programme.
Writer
An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.
Director
An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.
Producer
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.
Writer
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.
Director
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.
Director
A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of his daily life as he interacts with different forms of environmental, familial, and social influences. While Anthony displays contradictory traits of creativity, destruction, rigidity, and tenderness as he interacts with his external and internal worlds, we see a story built from the the multidimensionality of Anthony's layered personality as a young man.
Producer
A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists, while he comes to an understanding of his physical mortality and becomes aware of his spiritual immortality.
Editor
A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists, while he comes to an understanding of his physical mortality and becomes aware of his spiritual immortality.
Director of Photography
A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists, while he comes to an understanding of his physical mortality and becomes aware of his spiritual immortality.
Writer
A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists, while he comes to an understanding of his physical mortality and becomes aware of his spiritual immortality.
Director
A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists, while he comes to an understanding of his physical mortality and becomes aware of his spiritual immortality.
