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A glimpse into the maestro’s life and music, Cachao: Uno más pays tribute to one of the greatest Afro-Cuban musicians of all time, Israel López “Cachao.” This documentary, produced by the DOC Film Institute at San Francisco State, features a live concert in San Francisco and interviews with musical collaborators including Andy García, John Santos, Ray Santos and Orestes Vilató, who help trace Cachao’s musical journey from his early days in Cuba to worldwide fame and recognition.
CuBata Kevin McSorley Ireland/Cuba, Documentary, 2010 10 min, HDV/MiniDV, Color Spanish with English subtitles
In Cuba, women have traditionally been prohibited from playing the Bata drums due to religious and cultural taboos. In this documentary, female drummer Aleida Sucarrat Torres talks about her experience playing the Bata drums while the “Chinitos,” a family of Bata drum players and makers, share their insights on the traditions and history of this sacred musical instrument.
World Premiere Kevin McSorley is a journalist and has been a researcher and producer in the television industry in Northern Ireland for seven years. He received his MA in Documentary Practice at the University of Ulster in 2008 and was awarded a bursary from One World Media to travel to Cuba to make his short film CuBata in 2009.
Producer: Kevin McSorley Cinematographer: Kevin McSorley Editor: Kevin McSorley Sound Design: Kevin McSorley Music: Piri López Chinito Cast: Pedro López Chinito, Elián López Chinito, Piri López Chinito, Aleida Sucarrat Torres, Odelkis Torres
Panorama Documentary Shorts Showcase Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Tues. April 27 9:00PM FREEChang Rodríguez, a delivery boy from Havana’s colorful Chinatown, is tired of his routine and longs for anything that will change his life. But unbeknownst to him, Chang’s life is actually connected to others living in the same building—including a young woman obsessed with collecting books and instruction manuals, a former Cantonese opera singer, and a Wushu practitioner. Completely unaware of his own power, Chang becomes an instrument of destiny every 12 years, during the year of the pig.
El bombillo Juan David Soto Taborda Cuba/Colombia, Documentary, 2009 12 min, MiniDV, Color Spanish with English subtitles
El bombillo is the story of two brothers and their journey home from school. They construct a world of adventures surrounding a light bulb they purchased to brighten up the little house they built with their father.
World Premiere Juan David Soto Taborda wrote the short film Oury Jalloh, based on the real life of a Sierra Leone refugee who was burnt in his prison cell by German police. El bombillo is his first documentary short in which he acted as a director and cinematographer.
Producer: Carlos Rodríguez Production Companies: Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV Screenwriter: Juan D. Soto Taborda Cinematographer: Juan D. Soto Taborda Editor: Juan D. Soto Taborda Sound Design: Orisel Castro
Documentary Shorts Competition Showcase Regal Metropolitan - Sat. April 24 4:00PM
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PM FREE El peleador Pablo José Lozano Hernández Cuba/Dominican Republic, Documentary, 2009 22 min, Video, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Leonardo is a young boy who likes to train fighting fish. He lives in San Isidro, a hot, picturesque area of the Old Havana district where the Caribbean colors and allure are an everyday occurrence. One day, he sets out to buy some fighting fish in a shop around the corner just to make them fight the ones he keeps back home. Leonardo’s fighting fish parallel his experiences, in the abstract and in the concrete, as a 10-year-old boy amongst his friends and at the gym where he trains to be a boxer.
Regional Premiere Producer: Christian Quiroga Saldaña Production Companies: Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV Cinematographer: Oliver Mota Editor: Ariel Escalante Meza Sound Design: Raynier Hinojosa O’Farrill
Regal Metropolitan - Fri. April 23 6:00PM (preceding La asamblea)
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PM
Fotógrafos reveals the stories of the photographers who work at the foot of the stairs of the Capitol in Havana, Cuba. Their beautiful antique cameras may be relics of the past as supplies become harder and harder to acquire, yet they remain upbeat as they preserve the images of visitors in sepia-toned photographs.
La buena vida tells the story of four characters that, while strangers to each other, live in the same bustling city. All of them chase after their dreams: Teresa tries to rescue lives as a psychologist; Edmundo is a hairdresser who dreams of owning a car; Mario wishes to join the Philharmonic; and Patricia works on surviving daily life. As they chase after their dreams, but struggle with misfortune, all of the characters will be surprised by where life takes them.
La sombra del tiempo Teddy Barouh Cuba/France, Drama, 2009 15 min, 35mm, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Nina is haunted by the memory of an experience of prostitution at the age of 10. Now at the age of 27, she will deliver this secret to Gabriel, the man who restored her faith in life.
Regional Premiere Teddy Barouh is a 27-year-old director and screenwriter with ties to Cuba and France. La sombra del tiempo is his first short film.
Producer: Yousef Ananda Production Companies: Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV Screenwriter: Teddy Barouh Cinematographer: Stephane Renard Sound Design: Esteban L. Bruzón González Panorama Narrative Shorts Showcase Regal Metropolitan - Sun. April 25 12:00PM Buy Tickets EICTV Shorts ShowcaseMexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PM La tarea Milagro Farfán Cuba/Peru, Documentary, 2009 28 min, MiniDV, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Sayné is an eight-year-old girl who must write a short story about her family for a school assignment. As she writes, she makes discoveries about her family members including her mom, dad, as well as her mom’s girlfriend. Although her mother’s partner has been around for a long time, Sayné begins to understand how her family is different than others and wants to ensure that she isn’t treated differently because of that.
World Premiere Producer: Marcela Esquivel Jiménez Production Companies: Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV Screenwriter: Daniel Tavares de Oliveira, Milagro Farfán Morales Cinematographer: York Neudel Editor: Domingo Lemus Sound Design: Albán Henriquez Music: Sexto Sentido
Panorama Documentary Shorts Showcase Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Tues. April 27 9:00PM FREE EICTV Shorts Showcase Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PM FREE Memoria de los peces Enrique Mencia Medrano Cuba/Puerto Rico, Fiction, 2009 12 min, MiniDV, Color Spanish with English subtitles
A beautiful and lonely old lady lives alone in a large house full of nothing but memories and her fish. One night she receives a phone call, but encounters only silence. The next night, at the same time, she receives a similar call. The silent, anonymous phone calls continue and begin to change her feelings of solitude, creating an illusion in her life.
World Premiere Producer: Vanesa Portieles Figueredo Production Companies: Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV Screenwriter: Chiara Marañón Cinematographer: Felipe Díaz Cifuentes Editor: Aldo Rey Valderrama Sound Design: Olivia Hernández Fernández Music: Enrique Baydán Ríos Escribano Cast: Eslinda Núñez Regal Metropolitan - Sat. April 24 6:00PM (preceding El vuelco del cangrejo) EICTV Shorts Showcase Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PMMemorias del desarrollo Memories of Overdevelopment Miguel Coyula USA/Cuba, Drama/Experimental, 2010 113 min, HD CAM, Color English, Spanish with English subtitles
Sergio Garcet is a Cuban novelist living an isolated life in New York City, who, despite having experienced the Cuban Revolution, now feels like nothing more than an aging college professor. Frustrated by his publisher’s lack of interest in his new novel and his increased inability to relate to others, he builds collages depicting his mordant vision of the world. The film's narrative structure consists of a mash-up of flashbacks, dreams, and hallucinations mixing live action, animation, and news footage from the last half of the 20th century. Memorias del desarrollo is a follow-up to the Cuban classic Memorias del subdesarrollo, based on the 1968 novel by Cuban writer Edmundo Desnoes. The film was an Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival 2010.
Regional Premiere www.memories-of-overdevelopment.com
Miguel Coyula was born in 1977, in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Since then, he has won numerous awards for his experimental short films. His first feature, Red Cockroaches was described by Variety as "a triumph of technology in the hands of a visionary with know-how" and went on to win several international awards.
Producer: David Leitner Production Companies: Memorias LLC Screenwriter: Miguel Coyula Cinematographer: Miguel Coyula Editor: Miguel Coyula Sound Design: Miguel Coyula Music: Dika Durbuzovic, Hayes Greenfield, Miguel Coyula Cast: Ron Blair, Eileen Alana, Susana Pérez, Lester Martínez, Dayana M. Hernández
Regal Metropolitan - Thurs. April 22 10:00 PMBuy Tickets Regal Metropolitan - Tue. April 27 6:00 PMBuy Tickets
The International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños - about an hour outside La Habana, Cuba - is widely respected as one of the world’s great film schools. What sets it apart is the vision of its founders – Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Argentinean filmmaker and poet Fernando Birri and Cuban filmmaker Julio García Espinoza. From the beginning, in December 1986, they wanted to create a "school of three worlds" (a play on “third world”) for students from Latin America, Africa and Asia. Since then, several thousand students and professionals have passed through the school and it has become a truly international institution, better described as "school of all worlds.” Everyone who passes through the school in its beautiful tropical environment cannot help but be touched by the spirit and creative inspiration of the place. Most students from every generation describe their time there as a life changing experience.
Cine Las Americas is honored to present the following short films from EICTV in this year’s festival: El bombillo Dir. Juan David Soto Taborda El peleador Dir. Pablo José Lozano Hernández La tarea Dir. Milagro Farfán Memoria de los peces Dir. Enrique Mencia Medrano Tierra incógnita Dir. Rodrigo Daniel Alves de Melo La sombra del tiempo Dir. Teddy Barouh
EICTV Shorts Showcase Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PM FREE Tierra incógnita Rodrigo Daniel Alves de Melo Cuba/Brazil, Drama, 2009 10 min, 35mm, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Walter is an old man who believes in a better world. Isolated in an abandoned homestead, he anxiously waits for a mysterious event that could lead him to his promised land, a land that is free from all evils of mankind. On the other hand, his son Rodolfo is convinced his father has gone mad and seeks to bring him back to reality. But when the old man’s dream world becomes a reality, Rodolfo ends up accepting Walter’s delirium and decides to follow him to his utopia.
North American Premiere Producer: Roberto Jiménez Sorokhtin Production Companies: Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV Screenwriter: Rodrigo Daniel Alves de Melo, Daniel Tavares de Oliveira Cinematographer: Arturo Juárez Aguilar Editor: Pedro Regis Dulci Sound Design: Jonathan Yeudiel Macías Ramírez Music: Sigried Macías Lastre Cast: Carlos Pérez Peña, Jorge Molina
Regal Metropolitan - Sun. April 25 10:00PM (preceding Lokas)
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Wed. April 28 9:00PM |
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