Raúl Tamayo Estrada is a Director of Photography, Editor, and Colorist. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Havana, Cuba. He served as a cinematography consultant for the Advanced Studies Department at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). He has been based in Rio de Janeiro since 2014, where he founded the audiovisual production company Estradas Filmes. In 2024, he was selected as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Cinema.

He has worked as Director of Photography on more than one hundred audiovisual works, collaborating across diverse formats, media, and languages.

His work has been showcased at major festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Uppsala, the Pan-African Film Festival, the Havana Film Festival, the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Al Jazeera, and Mumbai. He has received awards in Cuba, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Qatar.

He currently collaborates on projects for cinema, television, and streaming platforms including MAX, Netflix, Prime Video, and Globoplay. Since 2023, he has also collaborated with China’s Xinhua News Agency.

Alongside his work in film and television, he expands his artistic practice into exhibition spaces. He was part of the creative team behind Joaquina de Angola, an audiovisual installation presented at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), and collaborated on the multiplatform exhibition Sobreviventes, about women survivors of gender-based violence, which will premiere in Rio de Janeiro in March 2026.

His work seeks to promote cinema as a tool for resistance, memory, and the construction of more just futures.