Amir Aether Valen

A Trinidadian-born audiovisual storyteller who explores the mirrors to man’s being we find in nature, and reflects on the psychospiritual nature of the self through poetic, meditative, and contemplative pieces of art that follow human relationships with both their internal and external worlds. While studying at the University of the West Indies, his student short documentary film project "Who I Say I Am" was presented at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival in 2016 where it won the United Nations Award for Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker, as well as the award of Best Trinidad & Tobago Short Documentary Film. In 2017 he was chosen from among 215 applicants in 24 countries to be a part of the 27th Generation of students at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba, where he completed the Curso Regular programme of 3 years - specializing in the field of Documentary Film Direction. He was 1 of 8 students to have been granted a scholarship provided by the Cuomo Foundation of Monaco. In his time at EICTV he has created over 15 short films, one of which was filmed at the Sierra Maestra - the largest mountain range in Cuba, and some of which have competed both locally and internationally at renowned film festivals such as Sheffield DocFest. In 2022 Amir has been a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus - delivering the course "Cinemas of Latin America" to the students of the B.A. Film programme.

Born: March 15, 1995 (Age 29) in Mount Hope, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago