The first story of the evolution of film industries in Latin America and the Caribbean published in Cuba and perhaps the most comprehensive to date, was presented this Thursday at the Casa del Alba, in the framework of this International Book Fair Cuba 2014. Under the title “The cinemas of Latin America and the Caribbean” this sort of two-volume Encyclopedia is an unprecedented text that tries to give an overview of just over a century of cinema in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the similarities between different national industries. Coordinated by the critic and researcher Edgar Soberon Torchia the book published by Editions EICTV , is also is the first publication of the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños that will have a national scope. According to critic Joel del Rio, one of the principal drafters, they insisted all along that it was not a story of hegemonic Latin American cinema, nor that Cuban film would prevail because it had been created here. The priority was to serve a historiographical tour, especially to students of film schools on the continent, to recognize the development of Latin American film industries, but being a highly...

Twenty years after the film Strawberry and Chocolate took out of the closet the homosexual theme of Cuban cinema, the American journalist and college professor B. Ruby Rich speaks of queer cinema and hidden films in the 35th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. Internationally recognized by christen the New Queer Cinema movement (NQC), the film critic came to Havana with the intention of presenting her latest book and deliver a lecture on this little known film surge in the Island Surprised by the interest aroused by the presentation of New Queer Cinema, the director's cut in the Hall 1930 National Hotel - as she stated exclusively to OnCuba - Ruby Rich decided to have another dialogue with a group of journalists , film critics and directors of audiovisual materials, among other people interested, which took place yesterday afternoon . On both occasions the professor at the University of California spoke about the need to address issues relating to unprejudiced free sexual identity and of gender in the current cinematic discourse in Latin America. After referring to the essential characteristics of movement and social circumstances which gave rise to it, she said the NQC has had since birth several...

Lucia Huergo does not usually give concerts. She has enough music, but, for some strange reason, it seems that she is more comfortable working for others, sharing the stage, to face the public alone. So she says is nervous because next October 12 she will offer her first big concert in the theater of the National Museum of Fine Arts ( NMFA ), flagship of the arts institution in the island According to those who have had the privilege of watching her on stage, Lucia is fluent in various instruments: saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, electronic keyboards ... and is able to venture into the most diverse genres. She has also shared her art with prestigious groups as Sintesis y Mezcla. However, amid the hustle of the rehearsals at home, she agreed to talk exclusively to OnCuba about her upcoming appearance on the scene, in which, probably, she will demonstrate her skills as an instrumentalist, work will appreciate those attending this show. What is special in this presentation at the NMFA? I haven’t given a concert in a long time; this is the second time in my life that I will give a concert alone. It will cover all my work,...

Carlos Lechuga, one of the young Cuban filmmakers who has received the biggest amount of prizes in recent years, smokes with anxiety as we talk in his living room, just a few days before the premiere of Melaza (Molasses), his first feature film, that competed in the category of Best Debut in the 34th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.