Especial "Desde Cuba: New Cinema" en el NEFIAC, Estados Unidos

New England Ibero American Film Festiva (NEFIAC)

Especial "Desde Cuba: New Cinema" (Third Edition)

Director in Focus – Esteban García Insausti



Mr Insausti, was born in Havana in 1971 and is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). In addition, he obtained a degree from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television – the school founded by Fernando Birri and Gabriel García Márquez. He began his professional career as a script writer for cuban television at age 19, to later become one of the first independent filmmakers of his generation. He enters the cuban film industry (ICAIC) with his first fiction short film “Mas de lo mismo” (More of the same), which was chosen as an official selection in Cannes 2001. Some of his other films include : “Luz Roja”, “Tres Veces Dos” –which was the official selection at Montreal, Biarritz and Huelva Film Festivals in 2004 and which was also chosen by FIPRESCI as one “10 best films shown in Cuba during the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana in 2004”. Another film, “Existen” an experimental documentary, won the Premio Coral to the Best Experimental Film in 2007 in the same Festival.

Mr Insausti is currently considered by several national and international critics as one of the most prominent directors of the avant- garde movement within the film industry in Cuba. His most recent film, “Larga Distancia” (”Long Distance”) is currently in a postproduction stage.

Mr Insausti’s award winning film “Existen”, was presented in Providence during the First Edition of “Desde Cuba: New Cinema” in 2008. This year, he joins us as a juror for the Shorts Competition Award.

Special Program
"Desde Cuba: New Cinema" (Third Edition)

A segment dedicated to showcase the works of young and mostly independent cuban filmmakers, “Desde Cuba: New Cinema”, was originally presented in Providence in the fall of 2008 at the initiative of Christine Limonte, a Brown University student. This first and exciting event evolved into an ongoing program which is now presenting its Third Edition as part of the New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema, and which includes award winning short films and documentaries.

The significance of these films cannot be overstated. The lack of available resources for filmaking and producing and the economic isolation of Cuba have proven incapable of hindering the evolution of ideas, enthusiasm, hopes and dreams of a new young generation of filmmakers. Overcoming what at times may seem insurmountable burocratic difficulties, they turn to the streets and into themselves to find a story to tell and to create a fiction film, an animation or a documentary.

Once again, we are privileged to be able to share their talent and their work with our community of New England.

Third Edition
First Program
09/19 at 1:30pm, Cable Car
EL CUARTO 101 | ROOM 101
Pedro Luis Rodríguez | Fiction | Cuba | 2008 | 15 min | MiniDV
EL MUNDO DE RAÚL | EL MUNDO DE RAÚL
Jessica Rodríguez - Zoe G. Miranda | Cuba | 2009 | 20 min. | Color | MiniDV
LA MAREA | THE TIDE
Armando Capó | Documentary | Cuba | 2009 | 20 min. | Color | MiniDV
MANTUM | MANTUM
Ricardo Miguel Hernández | movie | Cuba | 2009 | 4 min. | Color | MiniDV
REFLEXIONES | REFLECTIONS
Laura Toriche - Yimit Ramirez | Animation | Cuba | 2009 | 5 min. | Color | MiniDV

Second Program
09/23 at 9:30pm, Cable Car & at 9:00pm, Linsly-Chittenden
20 AÑOS | 20 YEARS
Bárbaro Joel Ortiz | Animation | Cuba | 2009 | 20 min. | Color | DVCam
EL DICTADO | DICTATION
Yolyanko William | Animation | Cuba | 2009 | 3 min. | Color | DVCam
HABANAver.T.a 31kb/seg | HABANAver.T.a 31kb/seg
Javier Labrador - Juan Carlos Sánchez | Cuba | 2009 | 30 min. | Color | MiniDV
REVOLUCIÓN | REVOLUTION
Mayckell Pedrero | Cuba | 2009 | 50 min. | Color | MiniDV

Online Film Program of New England Ibero American Film Festival (NEFIAC)

ALL FILMS with ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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NEFIAC at the HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE
Pre-festival screening

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AQUELE QUERIDO MES DE AGOSTO | THIS DEAR MONTH OF AUGUST
Miguel Gomes | Portugal | 2008 | 147 min. | Color | 35mm
NEFIAC PROGRAM at BROWN UNIVERSITY
BEST FILM BY EMERGING DIRECTOR Competition Program

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HAITI Program | HAITI Program
Strange Things: Children of Haiti
Alexandria Hammond | Haiti-USA | 2010 | 71 min.
CELDA 211 | CELL 211
Daniel Monzón | Spain - France | 2009 | 113 min. | Color | 35mm
AQUELE QUERIDO MES DE AGOSTO | THIS DEAR MONTH OF AUGUST
Miguel Gomes | Portugal | 2008 | 147 min. | Color | 35mm
Desde Cuba: NEW CINEMA | Desde Cuba: NEW CINEMA
(Program #1)
EL CUARTO 101 | ROOM 101 , EL MUNDO DE RAÚL , LA MAREA | THE TIDE , MANTUM , REFLEXIONES | REFLECTIONS
CODE NAME: BUTTERFLIES | NOMBRE SECRETO: MARIPOSAS
Cecilia Domeyko | USA – Dominican Republic | 2009 | 63 min. | Color
SÓ QUANDO EU DANÇO | ONLY WHEN I DANCE
Beadie Finzi | Brazil - United Kingdom | 2009 | 78 min | Color
LATINOS en cortos | Shorts Program
(Program #1)
UKUKU (Peru) , OLHOS DE RESSACA | UNDERTOW EYES (Brazil) , MNEMOSYNE RISING (USA) , RICTUS (México) , 2o4 (Puerto Rico) , CUBAMA (USA)
LOS CONDENADOS | THE DAMNED
Isaki Lacuesta | Spain | 2009 | 94 min. | Color | 35mm
HAITI Program | HAITI Program
La dérive douce d’un enfant de petit - goâve | The gentle drifting of a haitian child
Pedro Ruiz | Canada - Venezuela | 2009 | 84 min.
TITÓN, DE LA HABANA A GUANTANAMERA | TITÓN, FROM HAVANA TO GUANTANAMERA
Mirtha Ibarra | Cuba | 2008 | 93 min | Color
LIXO EXTRAORDINÁRIO | WASTELAND
Lucy Walker – João Jardim – Karen Harley | Brazil | 2009 | 78 min. | Color
LOS CONDENADOS | THE DAMNED
Isaki Lacuesta | Spain | 2009 | 94 min. | Color | 35mm
PARAÍSO | PARADISE
Héctor Gálvez | Peru – Spain - Germany | 2009 | 91 min. | Color | Digital Video
EL CAMINO | THE PATH
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez | Costa Rica | 2007 | 113 min. | Color
LIXO EXTRAORDINÁRIO | WASTELAND
Lucy Walker – João Jardim – Karen Harley | Brazil | 2009 | 78 min. | Color
PARAÍSO | PARADISE
Héctor Gálvez | Peru – Spain - Germany | 2009 | 91 min. | Color | Digital Video
NORTEADO | NORTHLESS
Rigoberto Pérezcano | Mexico - Spain | 2009 | 95 min. | Color | 35mm
OS SEGREDOS DA TRIBO | SECRETS OF THE TRIBE
José Padilha | UK - Brazil | 2009 | 94 min. | Color
NORTEADO | NORTHLESS
Rigoberto Pérezcano | Mexico - Spain | 2009 | 95 min. | Color | 35mm
CONTRACORRIENTE | UNDERTOW
Javier Fuentes-Léon | Peru - Colombia | 2009 | 102 min. | Color | 35mm
EL INFORME TOLEDO | THE TOLEDO REPORT
Albino Alvarez G. | Mexico | 2008 | 84 min | Color
ESO QUE ANDA | VAN VAN FEVER
Ian Padrón | Cuba | 2010 | 75 min. | Color
ÚLTIMO VERANO DE LA BOYITA | LAST SUMMER OF LA BOYITA
Julia Solomonoff | Argentina | 2009 | 93 min. | Color | 35mm
Desde Cuba: NEW CINEMA | Desde Cuba: NEW CINEMA
(Program #2)
EL DICTADO | DICTATION , 20 AÑOS | 20 YEARS , EL CUARTO 101 | ROOM 101 , REVOLUCIÓN | REVOLUTION
Several | Cuba | 2009 | 90 min.
ESPAÑA en cortos | Spanish Shorts
OTRA VIDA | ANOTHER LIFE , DI ME QUE YO | TELL ME THAT I , EL CONTRATIEMPO | THE MISHAP , PINTO DE CEUS | THE PAINTER OF SKIES , FÁBRICA DE MUÑECAS | DOLL FACTORY , CÓMO CONOCÍ A TU PADRE | HOW I MET YOUR FATHER , LA RUBIA DE PINOS PUENTE | THE BLOND FROM PINOS PUENTE , CÍCLOPE | CYCLOPS
EL ÚLTIMO GUIÓN: BUÑUEL EN LA MEMORIA | THE LAST SCRIPT: REMEMBERING BUÑUEL
Gaizca Urresti - Javier Espada | Germany – Mexico - Spain | 2008 | 113 min. | Color
MEMORIAS DEL DESARROLLO | MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT
Miguel Coyula | Cuba - USA | 2010 | 113 min. | Color | HD CAM
MAL DÍA PARA PESCAR | BAD DAY TO GO FISHING
Álvaro Brechner | Spain - Uruguay | 2009 | 100 min. | Color | 35mm
LA VERGÜENZA | SHAME
David Planell | Spain | 2009 | 107 min. | Color | 35mm
LATINOS en cortos | Shorts Program
(Program #2)
MIGRATION / MIGRACIÓN , THE FENCE / LA BARDA , POINT OF ENTRY | PUNTO DE ENTRADA
LA VERGÜENZA | SHAME
David Planell | Spain | 2009 | 107 min. | Color | 35mm
LA PALOMA | THE DOVE
Sigrid Faltin | Germany | 2008 | 86 min. | Color
EL CUERNO DE LA ABUNDANCIA | HORN OF PLENTY
Juan Carlos Tabío | Cuba | 2008 | 108 min. | Color | 35mm
NEFIAC PROGRAM at YALE UNIVERSITY
FILMS PROGRAM/NEW HAVEN

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AQUELE QUERIDO MES DE AGOSTO | THIS DEAR MONTH OF AUGUST
Miguel Gomes | Portugal | 2008 | 147 min. | Color | 35mm
EL ÚLTIMO GUIÓN: BUÑUEL EN LA MEMORIA | THE LAST SCRIPT: REMEMBERING BUÑUEL
Gaizca Urresti - Javier Espada | Germany – Mexico - Spain | 2008 | 113 min. | Color
Desde Cuba: NEW CINEMA | Desde Cuba: NEW CINEMA
(Program #2)
EL DICTADO | DICTATION , 20 AÑOS | 20 YEARS , EL CUARTO 101 | ROOM 101 , REVOLUCIÓN | REVOLUTION
Several | Cuba | 2009 | 90 min.
CIDADÃO BOILESEN | CITIZEN BOILESEN
Chaim Litewski | Brazil | 2009 | 93 min. | Color | DVD
ESO QUE ANDA | VAN VAN FEVER
Ian Padrón | Cuba | 2010 | 75 min. | Color
DESCARTES | DISCARDED TRIMS
Fernando Mieles | Ecuador | 2009 | 80 min. | Color
LOS CANALLAS | RIFF RAFF
Ana Cristina Franco - Jorge Fegan - Nataly Valencia - Diego Coral | Ecuador | 2009 | 73 min. | Color | 35mm
TRANSLATINA | TRANSLATINA
Luis Felipe Degregori | Peru | 2010 | 90 min. | Color
LA FUGA | WEDDING AU LAIT
Edmundo H. Rodríguez | Puerto Rico | 2010 | 77 min. | Color | 35mm
MI3NT3 | LIE!
Rafi Mercado | Puerto Rico | 2008 | 84 min. | Color | 35mm
MAL DÍA PARA PESCAR | BAD DAY TO GO FISHING
Álvaro Brechner | Spain - Uruguay | 2009 | 100 min. | Color | 35mm
ÚLTIMO VERANO DE LA BOYITA | LAST SUMMER OF LA BOYITA
Julia Solomonoff | Argentina | 2009 | 93 min. | Color | 35mm
CONTRACORRIENTE | UNDERTOW
Javier Fuentes-Léon | Peru - Colombia | 2009 | 102 min. | Color | 35mm
MEMORIAS DEL DESARROLLO | MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT
Miguel Coyula | Cuba - USA | 2010 | 113 min. | Color | HD CAM
FELICITAS | FELICITAS
Teresa Constantini | Argentina | 2009 | 128 min. | Color | 35mm


Panels Discussions

Cuban Cinema of Today:

Presentation & discussion with Ann Marie Stock, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies at The College of William & Mary. Signing of her book “On Location in Cuba” afterwards.

Interview with Ann Marie Stock

Date & Location: Thursday 23 at 5:30PM. Watson Institute of International Relations, Joukowsky Forum. 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02912 - 401.863.2645


Queer Expressions in Latin American Cinema:


Javier Fuentes-León
Julia SolomonoffDiscussion with Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University; Julia Solomonoff, Director of The Last Summer of la Boyita (Último verano de la Boyita); and Javier Fuentes-León, Director of Undertow (Contracorriente).
Date & Location: Friday 24 at 5:30PM. List Art Center, room 102. 64 College St. Providence, RI 02912 - 401.863.2645


Panel Discussion with Director & Doña Dedé Mirabal after screening:


Mirabal sisters
Code Name: Butterflies | Nombre Secreto: Mariposas. Cecilia Domeyko, 2009,USA, 63 min.

"Code Name: Butterflies" is the first documentary to tell the powerful story of the Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic. In the 1950s, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal played a crucial role in creating a secret resistance movement against Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, one of the most bloodthirsty tyrants the world has ever known. When the dictator had them assassinated and tried to make it look like an accident, public indignation signaled the beginning of the end of Trujillo’s dictatorship which fell six months later. The courage of these women who helped bring freedom and democracy to their country is legendary. Today, the Dominican Republic owes much to these incredible women who dared to fight for what they believed in.


Events
Special Feature Presentation
Q& A with the Director, after presentation of the film.

MIGUEL COYULA – Writer, Director, Cinematographer

Miguel Coyula was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1977. He is part of a new wave of independent Cuban filmmakers working outside of the mainstream using digital technology on shoestring budgets. He has garnered many awards at film festivals with short films such as Dancing on Needles (1999), Nice Going (1999), Clase Z Tropical (2000), and The Plastic Fork (2001).

After graduating in 1999 from the prestigious International Film and Television School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, Coyula came to New York on an invitation from the Providence Latino Film Festival to show one of his films.

While in New York he met Anna Strasberg of The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and was offered an acting scholarship. Returning to the U.S. to attend the Strasberg Institute, Coyula made his first feature, Red Cockroaches.

Reviewers reached for comparisons to Blade Runner: a bleak, futuristic Manhattan with flying cars, monumental Fritz Lang architecture in acid rain, and a long-dead sister who turns up alive to disrupt the world of her brother/lover. The 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival described Red Cockroaches as “in the tradition of David Lynch” while Variety called it “undeniably inventive, visually stunning” and a “triumph of technology in the hands of a visionary with know-how.”

In 2009, Coyula received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in support of his work on Memories of Overdevelopment.

Memories of Overdevelopment premiered at Sundance 2010 and subsequently won the Havana Star for Best Film at the 2010 Havana Film Festival New York.

Coyula is currently in preproduction on a new feature, Blue Road, based on his own unpublished novel. It is the second film of a trilogy begun by Red Cockroaches.


Memories of overdevelopment, Showing at the Cable Car Cinema, Sept 24th., 7:30 PM

CECILIA DOMEYKO - Director


Code Name: Butterflies – Showing at the Avon Cinema, September 19th, 3:00 PM

ISHTAR YASIN GUTIERREZ – Director

Ishtar Yasin was born in Moscow in 1968 of Iraki, Chilean and Costa Rican origin. She starts its artistic education in 1979 at the Castella Conservatory, in San José, Costa Rica. Later on she follows Dramatic Arts career at the University of Costa Rica. She receives a Master’s degree in Arts from the State Cinema Institute of Moscow (VGIK) in 1990. Since 2000 she works in her first feature film project “El camino” (The Path), which is chosen for the Manhein Coproduction Meetings in Heidelberg, Germany. It also receives the support of Fonds Sud Cinema Program from the French Ministry of International Affairs and a scholarship from Center of Scriptwriting (CECI), from Normandy, France. In 2008, after seven years of hard work, her first long feature film, “El camino” (The Path) finally sees the light in the Berlinale and she will be sharing with us at NEFIAC this year. She is currently working in the postproduction of the documentary “Apocalipsis de Nuestro Tiempo” (Apocalypse of our Time) about the recent work by the costarican-chilean painter, Julio Escámez and also the documentary “Les Invisibles” (The Invisibles) about the drama of the Haiti people after the earthquake. Another project in which she is involved is “Cine Carretero” that she is devoted to bringing cinema to marginal communities. “Knife of the Soul” is her second long feature film project, which is in its development stage at the present moment.


The Path, Showing at the Cable Car Cinema, September 21st, 5:30 PM

JAVIER FUENTES – Director

Javier Fuentes-Léon moved to Los Angeles where he pursued a M.F.A. in film directing at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), after finishing his medical career in Peru. His short film “Rooms” was awarded by the National Film Board of Peru (CONACINE) in 1997. He wrote and directed the short film Gemini and wrote two feature scripts: “The Woman Who Feared the Sun” and “Contracorriente” (Undertow). He received a scholarship for a screenwriting lab from the Fundación Carolina in Spain where he finished the script. Currently, Javier is preparing his 3 next projects: “The Woman Who Feared the Sun”, film adaptation of his play “Mr. Clouds”, “Pearblossom Highway”, a psychological thriller inspired by a short story by Julio Cortázar, and “Sinister”, a futurist rock musical.


Undertow, Showing at the Avon Cinema Sept 22nd, 8:30 PM

IAN PADRON- Director


Van Van Fever, Showing at the Cable Car Cinema Sept 23rd, 7:30 PM

JAVIER ESPADA- Director

Javier Espada is the director of the 22 x Don Luis Film Festival created as a film homage to Luis Buñuel, which has already completed its 6th edition. He has designed the permanent exhibition of the Center Buñuel in Calanda (CBC), in honor to the Aragonese filmmaker and Spanish icon Luis Buñuel. Mr. Espada heads the CBC since its creation in the year 2000. He has created numerous exhibitions related to Buñuel in the cities all over the world. Along with Asier Mensuro he designed the photographic exposition of the Buñuel Family Album (Album fotográfico de la familia Buñuel). In contribution with the Filmoteca Española he conceived an exhibition dedicated to rescue an assembly of unpublished photographs made by Buñuel while scouting for locations in Mexico called Mexico Photographed by Luis Buñuel. He has collaborated in diverse film festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival, CineFrancia, Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano de Lérida, Festival Cinespaña de Toulouse, Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano de Lisboa, Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico), Documenta Madrid, Filmtage Munich, SEMINCI, San Sebastián International Film Festival, Havana International Festival of Latin-American Cinema, and many more. He has written and co-directed with Gaizka Urresti the documentary El ultimo guión: Buñuel en la memoria (The last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel), which received several international awardeds and will be screened at NEFIAC this year.


The Last Script: Remembering Bunuel, Cable Car Cinema, Sept 24th, 5:30 PM

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