Heidi Hassan

Co-director of In a Whisper

She currently lives and works between Switzerland and Spain. She graduated from Direction of Photography at the EICTV-Cuba in 2002 and from Film Direction at the HEAD-Switzerland in 2008. She combines her personal work as a filmmaker and visual artist, with numerous collaborations as a cinematographer. Her works have been presented at prestigious festivals and received numerous distinctions, including Best Documentary Award at IDFA, and at the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana for "In a Whisper", a feature film co-directed with Patricia Pérez in 2019. With “Another Island”, her first feature film, she also received the award for Best Documentary at the Havana Film Festival in New York in 2015. For “Tierra Roja”, a self-fiction short film, she received the award for Best Latin American Film at the Bilbao International Documentary Film Festival (ZINEBI) in 2009, among others.