Santiago de Cuba, March 8 (Prensa Latina) Filmmaker Pamela Sporn described the presence of American filmmakers at the twentieth edition of the Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam International Documentary Film Festival, which ends here today, as an act of solidarity.
The artist from the North considered it an honor that the event was dedicated to independent cinema in her country and also as a way to condemn the economic, commercial and financial blockade that has affected life in the archipelago for more than 60 years .
On the penultimate day of the event, Sporn’s documentary film Making the Impossible Possible was screened at the Universidad de Oriente, showing the campaign developed by students in the 1960s and 1970s to open up Puerto Rican colleges in New York.
Another valued contribution from the educational institution was La batalla de los puentes by Venezuelan Carlos Aspurúa, which was added to other documentaries hosted at the event and to the conferences dedicated to this film genre.
Alejandro Gil’s presentation of Soberanía at the Eastern Pharmaceutical Laboratory was an emotional moment as its content related to the vaccines being developed by Cuban scientists to counteract Covid-19.
In addition to the selection of 14 works by independent filmmakers from the United States, which made up the delegation of more than 30 members, works from Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria were also made available to the public.
This edition honored the 30th anniversary of Televisión Serrana and the 45th anniversary of the Union of Writers and Artists, as well as the greatest tribute to the career of Santiago Alvarez, who would turn 104 that day.
The Rialto Halls and those of the cities of El Cobre and El Caney, together with the Visual Museum and the Macubá Theater, were the main stages of the event that had a community action in the San Juan neighborhood with a documentary film dedicated to the Facet as literacy teacher for the troubadour Silvio Rodríguez.
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