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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The The Rich Mix Winter/Spring Retrospective photo exhibit and movie screening event will take place in London England from January 27 through February 27 at 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road.
Rich Mix puts together a selection of films and photography that explore the recent history of Cuba, taking a look at the island 50 years after its Revolution.
Cuban Stories in photographs
by Angel Gil, Helena Smith and Claire Boobbyer
Three photographers come together to celebrate and explore life in Cuba,…
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On December 3rd, 1979 it was opened at the Chaplin Movie Theater in Havana the first issue of one event which, in time, will be recognized as the biggest and most significant cinematographic gathering in the Latin-American space: The international Festival of the New Latin-American Movie.
Three decades after that day, the festival will celebrate, between the 3rd and 12th December this year its thirtieth first edition, now consolidated as the most important cinematographic event in Latin-America and mandatory rendezvous for those that in the…
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Guardian.co.uk
The actor Sean Penn has flown to Cuba to chase what would be the biggest scoop of his career as a part-time journalist: an interview with Fidel Castro.
The Oscar winner, who last year bagged interviews with Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez, is reportedly on assignment for Vanity Fair in his quest to meet Cuba’s former president.
In a sign of Havana’s approval the communist party newspaper Granma covered Penn’s visit yesterday to the Island of Youth, where he visited a gallery and met artists.
According to the online magazine tmz.com Penn hopes to ask Fidel about Cuba’s evolving…
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By Steven Zeitchik | Hollywood Reporter
A trio of prominent producers are teaming up for “Havana Nocturne,” a story of gangsters in 1950’s Cuba based on T.J. English’s New York Times bestseller.
Eric Eisner (“Hamlet 2”), Gil Adler (“Superman Returns”), and Shane McCarthy (untitled Robert Cooley mob drama at Paramount) are attached as producers on the project. Eisner’s L+E banner will produce and finance development, while Adler will produce via his Gilbert Adler Prods.
“Nocturne” centers on a group of mainly American gangsters in Batista’s Cuba, particularly Meyer Lansky, who run the freewheeling country’s…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The four plus hour epic “Che” movie will open in Los Angeles and New York on December 12. It will be split into two parts and released to a wider audience in January.
Benecio del Toro stars as “La Revolution” hero Che Guevara. The first part of the film is 129 minutes and titled “The Argentine” and the second part is 128 minutes and titled “Guerilla”. There will be a 30 minute intermission between the two parts and each part will be treated as a separate movie with separate admissions.
The film will…
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By Redaction AHORA
Some 90 artists from Latin America and Europe have donated works to the online Art for Cuba expo-sale organized by Cuban actor and painter Jorge Perugorria to rise funds to restore hurricane-stricken Gibara city, Holguin.
Including 70 paintings, 22 engravings, five sculptures and nine photographs the catalog has 106 works of art.
Engravers, sculptors, photographers and painters have answered the call by Cuban Oscar nominee for “Strawberry and Chocolate” (1994) Jorge Perugorria on the webpage ArtePorCuba.com opened on October 5 at Casa Lam in Mexico.
Gibara is a small Cuban city that was devastated by…
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The official web site is BienalHabana.cult.cu and this article below comes from CubaHeadlines.com.
Experts from the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center are reviewing more than 400 proposals submitted by artists from 32 nations in preparations for the 10th Havana Biennial Art Exhibition, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year.
Founded in the 1980s primarily to promote Cuban fine arts, the organizers fought hard to overcome the economic crisis that affected Cuba in the 1990s, and at times had to postpone the event and wait for better circumstances.
However, the event continues to be held and includes a central…
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By NICK VIVARELLI | Variety
Italy and Cuba have signed a co-production agreement under which Silvio Berlusconi-owned Medusa is expected to shoot a comedy by Italo helmer Paolo Virzi on the Caribbean isle.
The Italy-Cuba co-production treaty was inked in Havana by Italian state film department chief Gaetano Blandini and Omar Gonzalez, minister of Cuban film institute ICAIC.
Blandini has said he hopes the treaty will turn Italy into “a gateway into Europe” for Cuban cinema, adding that the closer rapport will make it easier for young Cuban filmmakers to liaise with Italian producers.
Meanwhile, Italy looks set to make…
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SPELLBINDING DOCUMENTARY JOINS CINEQUEST FAMILY
Cinequest Distributes Award-Winning Film Following Cuban Artists and Athletes
SAN JOSE, CA – April 30, 2008 – Cinequest is proud to provide film fans access to a groundbreaking documentary, which won Cinequest Film Festival’s Global Landscapes Directing Award for its ability to reach into the lives of four young Cubans—a boxer and ballerina from Havana, Cuba; and a boxer and ballerina from Miami, Florida—and reveal the unique struggles underwent with their chosen passions.
Directors Mike Cahill and Brit Marling’s intimate filmmaking approach unearths the passion of four Cuban athletes and dancers constrained by the…
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Cuban Dreams will be a Feature Length Documentary produced and directed by Gail Reaben
Cuban Dreams will be a feature length documentary exploring the dreams of the Cuban people. Most Americans only know of the political aspects of this country and the media reports of Cubans trying to escape by boats and rafts. Little is known about who the Cubans really are and what they dream about. They live in a controlled society dominated by restriction and economic hardship. Does living in this environment cause them to restrict their…
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