Nicolás Guillén Landrián
1938-2003

Nephew of poet Nicolás Guillén, Nicolás Guillén Landrián was a film maker and painter.

"Nicolás Guillén Landrián" (1938 – July 23, 2003) was an experimental Cuban filmmaker.

Guillén was an accomplished filmmaker. He made a total of 13 documentaries, although they were heavily censored and prevented from being part of the Cuban Film Industry. In 1964, he was given a special award at the Cracow Film Festival for his film En un barrio viejo. In 1968, his documentary Coffea Arabiga featured the Beatles' song Fool on the Hill as Fidel Castro appeared on screen. That same year, Guillén was accused of plotting to assassinate Castro. The Cuban government interrogated him for six months in Villa Marista. From 1970 to 1989, he was repeatedly jailed and institutionalized. He received at least eight electroconvulsive therapy, never under sedation.  In 1989, he was able to flee Cuba and lived the rest of his life in Miami, Florida.

His uncle was Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén.

-- from his entry in Wikipedia

"Most of his documentaries were censured, apparently because he was not considered of the quality required to represent the Cuban Film Industry. Nephew of the poet Nicolas Guillen, he was also a painter and writer. Most of his films are still unknown in Cuba and even less in the world. He was sent to jail twice and also to a mental institution, where he was given electric shock treatment. Irreverent, experimental and in some way sarcastic, some of his films have survived censorship." 

-- from his entry in imdb by Manuel Zayas, also Cuban.