Cuban Filmmaker.

Guillermo CENTENO (Guillermo CENTENO SABÍ) is a camera assistant, camera operator, cinematographer, screenwriter and director.

Born in 1945 in Havana (Cuba), Guillermo Centeno got a degree in Art History from the University of Havana. In 1961, he began to work at the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC) as a specialist in the puppet department, but he quickly became a camera assistant, then camera operator, cinematographer and finally screenwriter and director of his documentaries from 1984.

As cameraman and director of photography, he worked in over eighty films, documentaries and fictions. One of them is "Algo más que una medalla" for which Centeno was awarded.

He became a documentary filmmaker in 1984 with "Mamá se va a la Guerra" and received the Coral award at the Havana Film Festival for "Volvamos a empezar" (1987) and "Desde lejos" (1989). He also made the hit documentaries "Un poco de Consuelo" and "Mientras el río pasa" (1986), "Del otro lado del cristal" (1995), "Montaña de luz" (2005), "Destinos" (2008) and "Del amor y los muertos" (2009).

He died in Havana (Cuba), in 2015.


Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
► Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
► http://cinelatinoamericano.org/cineasta.aspx?cod=405
► www.cubacine.icaic.cu/es/cineasta/guillermo-centeno-sabi
► https://cubarte.cult.cu/periodico-cubarte/guillermo-centeno-y-su-busqueda-del-ser-humano/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 21 August 2025