About KAREN SOTOLONGO MENÉNDEZ
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Professional Cuban Film Director, Editor, Art Director, Executive Producer and Actress graduated from the Metrópolis Education Center, the Barcelona's International Film School (ECIB) and the PLató de Cinema Academy in Spain.
Member of the International New York Human Rights Film Festival, the Barcelona's Documentary Club and the National Union of Writers and Artists in Cuba (UNEAC), she has worked in more than twenty films such as ¨In her hands¨ produced by Netflix, Moon Dogs Films, Chelsea and Hillary Clinton with the Oscar nominated director Marcel Mettelsiefen and Tamana Ayazi, next to the famous editor Stephen Ellis; the ¨Moto GP Unlimited¨ streaming serie coproduced by MediaPro Studios and Amazon Prime Video and, her own films, achieving recognition for her work in and outside her native country; as well as  the Austin International Art Festival, New York International Women Festival, Hollywood International Golden Age Festival, San Francisco and London Independent Festival and the most recently award for Best European Film Director at the Sweet Democracy Film Awards in Rome.
She currently works as a freelance artist on New York advocating mainly for pacifist and humanitarian causes.