When Cuban filmmaker Gerardo Chijona ¨Ticket to Paradise¨ (Boleto al paraíso) was preparing his previous film ¨ Un paraíso bajo las estrellas¨ (A paradise under the stars) he told a reporter: "I can´t have Elizabeth Pena, my friend from the Sundance Festival, for the protagonist role, but I have another Elizabeth Peña in Cuba who is named Thais Valdés."

Hollywood actor Millard Mitchell, who was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1903, when his American parents were residing here for work, always retained his Cuban citizenship, which he took to the film set of the classic Singin 'in the Rain. Mitchell was a popular radio actor in New York in the 1930s; his first film appearance was in commercials and after he moved to Los Angeles he worked on eight films from 1931 to 1936.

All experts agree that this saga should begin with César Romero, not only for his condition of big star in the Golden Age of Hollywood but because he was the son of Maria Mantilla, the spiritual daughter of José Martí, and of the Commander of the Cuban Liberation Army Julio César Romero.

U.S. actress Annette Bennings, nominated to the Oscar for American Beauty, and winner of a Golden Globe for The Kids Are All Right, told OnCuba the latter is the film which has given the most satisfactions to her. The actress, who has starred in films like Being Julia and The American President, is at Havana´s Film Festival wherein she stated to be "by accident and happy."

Alejandro Awada (1961), the Argentine star known for blockbuster like Nine Queens and The Aura by late Fabian Bielinsky is in Cuba for the first time to present Dias de Pesca by the laureate Carlos Sorin (The King's film), one of the strong contenders for the prizes of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.