Ernesto Daranas

Ernesto Daranas Serrano (born December 7, 1961) is a Cuban filmmaker. Daranas' three feature films have had unprecedented success in Cuba and were submitted to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Daranas is a Latin Grammy nominee for Best Long Form Music Video and a recipient of the King of Spain Award. His filmography includes Sergio & Sergei (2017), starring Ron Perlman, and Behavior, often considered the greatest Cuban film of the 21st century. Biography Ernesto Daranas Serrano was born in Havana on December 7, 1961. His father, Manuel Ángel Daranas Valdés (1934-2000) was an actor, teacher and writer who gained national recognition as the author of the adventure radio series La flecha de cobre (The copper arrow), an audience success that was on the air for nearly a decade in the late 60's and early 70's. Ernesto Daranas' beginnings as a storyteller took place in the radio while still a college student. In 1983, he became a Bachelor in Geography at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico (now University of Educational Sciences).