At the time of his passing, Cortazar was the director of the Huron Azul Documentary Development Center at the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

Born in Havana in 1935, Cortazar has been both filmmaker and teacher. He was a founder of the International Film and TV School at San Antonio de Los Banos outside the capital and also has been a professor at the Faculty of Audiovisual Communications of the Higher Institute of the Arts (ISA).

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