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First ever Cuban film festival
comes to Jamaica
Jamaica
Observer Reporter.
Monday, June 13, 2005.
The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in
association with the Friends of Cuba, will
stage the first ever Cuban Film Festival
in Jamaica, opening on Wednesday, June 14
and closing on June 18 in Kingston.
During the five-day run, the festival will
screen five films and three documentaries
free to the public, and stage workshops
where Cuban film maker, Rigoberto Lopez
Pego, and celebrated Cuban writer, Omar
Gonzalez Jimenez, will meet and discuss
mutual interests with Jamaican film makers
and industry personnel.
The festival's pre-launch activities include
the showing of the film A Successful Man
and the documentary My Heart at the Neville-Hall
Lecture Theatre Faculty of Humanities, UWI
Campus on Tuesday beginning at 7:00 pm.
The official opening will be on Wednesday,
June 15, at 6:00 pm at the LOJ Auditorium,
New Kingston, with the film Scent of Oak.
The Cuban embassy officials and guests,
in addition to members of the diplomatic
corps, Jamaican government and film industry
representatives will attend.
The remainder of the festival schedule
is as follows:
The film: Amanda's Prophesies and the documentary:
Puerto Principe Of Mine, on Thursday June
16, at the JAMPRO Headquarters in New Kingston.
The film: Plaff- Or Too Much Fear To Life
and the documentary: The Children Of Baragua,
at the Neville-Hall Lecture Theatre Faculty
of Humanities, UWI Campus on Friday, June
17 at 7:00 pm.
The festival closes with the film I Am
From Son To Salsa, to be screened at Red
Bones Restaurant, Braemar Avenue, New Kingston
at 7:00 pm.
All films and documentaries are in Spanish
with English subtitles.
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