Ernesto Juan Castellanos, born in 1963, is a freelance author, translator, journalist, filmmaker and researcher who lives and works in Havana

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, Cuba

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. In 1996, he started organizing the Cuban Beatles conventions, which opened doors to the world of writing. Castellanos has since written and published four books as well as a number of stories for newspapers and magazines both in Cuba and abroad.

Castellanos has a university degree in English and works variously as a translator and interpreter, in film and live music production management, and as a fixer and production manager for international radio and film crews and bands working in Cuba, most notably CNN

CNN

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 (Jim Acosta

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), PBS (Ray Suarez

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), HD-Net, the BBC

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 (Michael Palin

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, Steve Leonard

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, Rhod Sharp

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, Simon Reeve

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), the Manic Street Preachers

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, Asian Dub Foundation

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, Audioslave

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, Simply Red

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, and Kool & the Gang

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.

He has shot, produced and directed the documentaries Descalzo sobre Abbey Road (in English, Barefoot on Abbey Road) and Havana Jam '79

Havana Jam '79

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.

Non-fiction books published in Cuba

• Los Beatles en Cuba: Un viaje mágico y misterioso
  Los Beatles en Cuba: Un viaje mágico y misterioso
  is a book compiled and co-authored by Cuban writer Ernesto Juan Castellanos. It collects all the proceedings of the First International Colloquium on the Significance of The Beatles' Work in Cuba, held in Havana from 15–17 October 1996....
  
   (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 1997)
• El sargento Pimienta vino a Cuba en un submarino amarillo
  El sargento Pimienta vino a Cuba en un submarino amarillo
  is Cuban author Ernesto Juan Castellanos’s second book about The Beatles.The book, divided in two halves as a music record, with side A and side B, contains travel pieces of the author around Beatles related places both in London and Liverpool, interviews with John Lennon’s original Quarrymen,...
  
   (Letras Cubanas, Havana, 2000)
• La guerra se acaba –si tú quieres
  La guerra se acaba –si tú quieres
  La guerra se acaba –si tú quieres is Cuban author Ernesto Juan Castellanos’s third non-fiction book, and his first about John Lennon...
  
   (Ediciones Extramuros, Havana, 2001)
• John Lennon en La Habana with a little help from my friends (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 2005)

External links

• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2822/is_1_27/ai_113805218
• http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=4&c=2&item=1063