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FOUR CUBAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE THEIR FILMS IN THE U.S.
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Marina Ochoa
Gloria Rolando
Claudia Rojas
Creating Spaces for Women’s Voices: The First International Showcase of Women
Filmmakers 3/11/2013 Cuba Now: interview with Marina Ochoa
Top female Cuban filmmakers visit U.S. for three-city showcase 3/8/2013 LA
Times: "Despite occasional signs of thawing, relations between the U.S. and Cuba
have remained frosty for the past half-century. This week, however, four of the
island nation's premier women writers and directors arrive stateside for the
inaugural Cuban Women Filmmakers U.S. Showcase, a traveling exhibition
highlighting the depth and diversity of their work and that of their peers."
Cuban Women Filmmakers US Showcase & a Conversation with Gloria Rolando
3/8/2013 Black Film Center, Indiana University: "My question to you is why have
you chosen to devote your life’s work to the study of the African diaspora?
GLORIA ROLANDO: I grew up in a very, very humble black family. My father was a
shoemaker, my mother made clothes, and my grandmother, whose hands I never will
forget, used to work as a domestic in the houses of other people. She was a
character; she’d never talk about age, she’d talk about life. She told me how in
Santa Clara in the 30s and 40s black people would walk around the park while
white people would walk inside the park; it was the custom of that time. She
told me about the Union Fraternal, the society for black people in Havana, and
another black society for those who were doctors or lawyers or teachers. I
remember that she used to say, “Maybe you will attend Club Athena because you
have your title, you graduated, you are a professional.” In school, though, I
never heard about this kind of history. After some time, I held on to all this
information, and when I started to make films I wanted to see these kind of very
humble people, but very proud and with a lot of dignity."
International Women’s Day: Cuban Women Filmmakers Showcase 3/8/2013
Repeating Islands: "Documentaries about jazz and friendship, exhibitionism and
the life before and after the revolution of a 95-year-old Cuban woman, Marķa de
los Reyes Castillo Bueno, whose grandmother was abducted by slave traders. “I
loved making that movie,” acclaimed director Marina Ochoa said in Spanish about
her film on the warm and feisty Bueno, “Blanco es mi pelo, negra mi piel”
(“White Is My Hair, Black Is My Skin”). “She’s a black woman who was born in
Cuba from slaves and I interviewed her because I wanted to show the history of
Cuba through the history of a woman. I totally fell in love with her doing this
project.” That film, along with more than 20 others are part of the Cuban Women
Filmmakers Showcase in Los Angeles, New York and Miami this March – the first
time a group of Cuban women have come to the United States to show their films.
Ochoa, the head of the Cuban Women Filmmakers Mediatheque, will come to the
screenings and take part in Q&A and panel discussions along with award-winning
filmmakers Gloria Rolando and Milena Almira, and acclaimed film and theater
actresses, Claudia Rojas."
Showcasing Films by Cuban Women 3/8/2013 Women's Media Center
Four Cuban Women Filmmakers Showcase Their Films in the U.S. 2/19/2013 Cuba
Now: "The Women In Film International Committee, the Cuban Women Filmmakers
Mediatheque, the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC)
and the American Cinematheque, in collaboration with the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, New York Women In Film &
Television, MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center,Women Make Movies,
Miami Beach Cinematheque, and Coral Gables Art Cinema, will showcase a selection
of short, documentary and feature films directed by Cuban women. The Showcase
includes presentations at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Brooks Institute and
Miami International University of Art & Design. The Cuban women participating in
the U.S. Showcase represent the island’s preeminent female directors, writers
and actors. They are award-winning filmmaker and head of the Cuban Women
Filmmakers Mediatheque, Marina Ochoa; award-winning Afro-Cuban documentary
filmmaker, Gloria Rolando; award-winning filmmaker Milena Almira and one of
Cuba’s most internationally acclaimed film and theater actresses, Claudia
Rojas."
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