It was screened at the 2009 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York where Aghion received the Néstor Almendros Award (named for the Oscar-winning Néstor Almendros) for courage in filmmaking.
But after two of his shorts (Gente en la playa and La tumba francesa) were banned, he moved to Paris.
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He also shot several prestigious advertisements for Giorgio Armani (directed by Martin Scorsese), Calvin Klein (directed by Richard Avedon) and Freixenet.
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In his later years, Almendros co-directed two documentaries about the human rights situation in Cuba, Mauvaise Conduite (1984) (Improper Conduct) about the persecution of gay people in Cuba, and Nadie escuchaba (Nobody Was Listening) about the alleged arrest, imprisonment, and torture of former comrades of Fidel Castro.
Néstor Kirchner | Daniel Nestor | Nestor Makhno | Nestor | Nestor (Stoic) | Palace of Nestor | Nestor's Palace | Nestor Serrano | Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina | Nestor (mythology) | Néstor Morales | Nestor Lakoba | Nestor J. Zaluzec | Néstor Gorosito | Nestor Carbonell | Nestor Buinitsky | Nestor 'Batko' Makhno | Néstor Almendros |