Patricio Wood
Acting
Biography
Hijo de padres actores, sus primeras actuaciones se producen en programas televisivos (Los comandos del silencio, 1968) y en teatro infantil, llegando a interpretar un personaje protagónico en el filme cubano El Brigadista, de Octavio Cortázar (Oso de Plata en el Festival de Berlín Occidental, 1978). Desde el estreno de este filme ha actuado ininterrumpidamente en todos los medios. Ingresó en el Instituto Superior de arte de Cuba en 1978, donde cursó la Especialidad de Actuación, obteniendo la licenciatura en 1984. Ha realizado actuaciones en más de diez filmes cubanos o coproducidos con otras cinematografías, significando algunos como Los sobrevivientes, de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea;Guardafronteras, de Octavio Cortázar; Caravana, de Rogelio París; El elefante y la bicicleta, de Juan Carlos Tabío y Tirano Banderas, de Juan Carlos Rodríguez (Cuba–España.Premio Goya, 1993) En su experiencia televisiva a incursionado en todos los géneros, protagonizando más de quince series y telenovelas y diversos programas. Ha caracterizado, por vez primera en la televisión cubana, a varias figuras históricas (Camilo Cienfuegos, Finlay, San Luis, Sucre). En los medios audiovisuales ha actuado junto a grandes figuras nacionales e internacionales como Gian María Volonté, Ignacio López Tarso, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Sergio Corrieri,Salvador Wood, Mario Balmaseda, María Rojo, Michel Wong. Ha tenido experiencias como locutor, actuación en la radio, narrador, comerciales, clips y como realizador de espectáculos y videos.
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ENTREGA

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
Banderas, the Tyrant

In the manner of a well run Greek tragedy, leaving aside one of its components, dragging in its passing narrative certainty by the viewer that violent death is the hallmark of so much misfortune purifier, Los Dioses Rotos crowns the very successful arrival of Ernesto Daranas to the feature domains and with it, the team that accompanied him, including the actors.
Fallen Gods

The story of a friendship in a city on the verge of substantial change. Miguel dreams of settling in New York while he waits for a visa that never seems to arrive, and Diego, a HIV-positive homosexual man, puts his dreams and cheerfulness to good use in his struggle to carry on enjoying every single day of his life from a rickety old bed in his small bedroom.
Last Days in Havana
People's Republic of Angola, Africa. A distant and isolated bridge, protected by Cuban troops, must be supplied. The convoy sets off for its destination. On the way, it will face the Cobra special detachment of the enemy UNITA forces.
Caravana

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."
The Survivors

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.
Horn of Plenty

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¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to teach the peasants there how to read. Coinciding with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this docudrama, 15-year-old Mario (Salvador Wood) has come to a tiny village in the Zapata swamps and gradually wins the villagers over to his task. At the same time, he receives an education in the realities of rural life from the hard-working peasants.
El brigadista

The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.
Black Island

On December 31, 1958, a detective investigates the theft of a painting from the home of a wealthy widow in Havana. The relationship between the two, amid investigations and danzones, reveals the history of the house and the family. The arrival of the bearded men in Havana changes the course of events.
Bailando con Margot

Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.
Boccaccerías Habaneras

The true story of a woman who infiltrates a spy network and defends her determination to complete her mission to the very end. It will recreate the atmosphere of the 1990s and will be set in the capital city, the tourist resort of Varadero, and the Ciénaga de Zapata.
Nora

A hit man of international prestige arrives in Caracas to carry out a political attack without knowing the identity of the victim. From the Illegal Immigrant Detention Center, El Paso, Texas, terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, alias Bambi C4, gets into the action, while revealing his activities in Venezuela and all of Latin America during its most active and deadly period.
Alias Bambi C-4

It's an open wound. With Estrés, Marilyn Solaya doesn't seek to tell stories: she exposes them, shakes them up, leaves them unanesthetized. In six intertwined stories, the director turns everyday life into an emotional battlefield, where poverty, love, illness, and dignity clash relentlessly.
Estrés

Biopic about revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.
Che

A squad of young Cuban armed forces recruits are tasked with defending a strategic key north of Cuba. The fraught relationships between the young soldiers and the sergeant who leads them transform as they discover his human qualities during training and learn discipline in the harsh conditions of their post.