Born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Lorenzo DeStefano is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, film editor and photographer. A member of the Directors Guild of America and former member of the Motion Picture Editor's Guild, he has produced and directed network series, documentaries and narrative films, worked in the US and the UK, and has written fiction, non-fiction, original screenplays and adaptations.

"Lorenzo DeStefano has created a beautifully curated memoir of his travels crisscrossing Cuba in the 1990s. Told in arresting photographs, it is near impossible to turn away. The Magic Hour is a worthy addition to the histories of Cuba, most especially the grim days during the so-called Special Period, an Orwellian euphemism for years of steep austerity and privation." -- Ann Louis Bardach, author of Without Fidel and Cuba Confidential"Remarkable photographs that chronicle times Cubans hoped would never return, and in 2016 many thought never would." -- Dr Stephen Wilkinson, International Institute for the Study of Cuba

Born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Lorenzo DeStefano is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, film editor and photographer. A member of the Directors Guild of America and former member of the Motion Picture Editor's Guild, he has produced and directed network series, documentaries and narrative films, worked in the US and the UK, and has written fiction, non-fiction, original screenplays and adaptations.

"Lorenzo DeStefano has created a beautifully curated memoir of his travels crisscrossing Cuba in the 1990s. Told in arresting photographs, it is near impossible to turn away. The Magic Hour is a worthy addition to the histories of Cuba, most especially the grim days during the so-called Special Period, an Orwellian euphemism for years of steep austerity and privation." -- Ann Louis Bardach, author of Without Fidel and Cuba Confidential"Remarkable photographs that chronicle times Cubans hoped would never return, and in 2016 many thought never would." -- Dr Stephen Wilkinson, International Institute for the Study of Cuba

Born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Lorenzo DeStefano is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, film editor and photographer. A member of the Directors Guild of America and former member of the Motion Picture Editor's Guild, he has produced and directed network series, documentaries and narrative films, worked in the US and the UK, and has written fiction, non-fiction, original screenplays and adaptations.

"Lorenzo DeStefano has created a beautifully curated memoir of his travels crisscrossing Cuba in the 1990s. Told in arresting photographs, it is near impossible to turn away. The Magic Hour is a worthy addition to the histories of Cuba, most especially the grim days during the so-called Special Period, an Orwellian euphemism for years of steep austerity and privation." -- Ann Louis Bardach, author of Without Fidel and Cuba Confidential"Remarkable photographs that chronicle times Cubans hoped would never return, and in 2016 many thought never would." -- Dr Stephen Wilkinson, International Institute for the Study of Cuba