Ernesto Juan Castellanos

Who is Ernesto Juan Castellanos?

Ernesto Juan Castellanos, born in 1963, is a Cuban freelance author, translator, educator, journalist, producer, filmmaker and researcher who lives and works in Miami, Florida. He has written and published four books as well as a number of stories for newspapers and magazines both in Cuba and abroad.

Castellanos has a university degree in English and works variously as a translator and interpreter, in film and live music production management, and as a fixer and production manager for international radio and film crews and bands working in Cuba, most notably CNN, PBS, HD-Net, the BBC, the Manic Street Preachers, Asian Dub Foundation, Audioslave, Simply Red, and Kool & the Gang.

He has shot, produced and directed the documentaries Descalzo sobre Abbey Road and Havana Jam '79.