Sheyla Pool

She has graduated of Hispanic Philology at the University of Havana, having completed several workshops screenplay. In 2005, she has graduated from the specialty of Sound at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (EICTV). She has won awards such as the Coral for Best Sound at Festival de Cine de La Habana (Havana, 2016, "Últimos días en La Habana", Dir. Fernando Pérez). She has alternated sound works with filmmaking and writing. She acted as Script Doctor of the award-winning feature film "Esteban". She has directed the documentary short "Great Muy Bien", as part of de Sundance series Made in Cuba. "Great Muy Bien" has been in several festival (IDFA, Sundance, Miami Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, etc) and won Best Documentary Short award at Boston Latino International Film Festival. She has finished her short fiction film "Fragile" and it has its World Premiere at 29 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival. "Fragile" was one of the five finalist at HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award (Miami Film Festival, 2019) and the poster won the Best Poster at Miami Film Festival. Now it is ready her third short film "Matrioshka". Also she is working on the script of her first feature film "Persona de confianza