| About the Filmmaker |
| Miguel Coyula was born in Havana, Cuba in 1977. He is part of a new wave of independent Cuban filmmakers working outside of the mainstream using digital technology on shoestring budgets. He has garnered many awards at film festivals with short films such as: Dancing on needles (1999) Nice Going (1999), Clase Z Tropical (2000), and The Plastic Fork (2001). After graduating from the prestigious International Film School of San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, in 1999, Miguel Coyula came to New York on an invitation from the Providence Latino Film Festival to show one of his films. While in New York he met Anna Strasberg of the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and was offered a scholarship. It was while attending the Strasberg Institute in New York on his second trip to the U.S, that Coyula made Red Cockroaches. Currently he is filming his next project, “Memories of Overdevelopment” sequel to the 1968 Cuban classic. Red Cockroaches represents his first full-length feature production. It is also the first of a trilogy. |