Cuba and the Caribbean on Panama Screens
(Prensa Latina) The Panamanian capital welcomes the first exhibit of Caribbean Traveling Cinema, an action to open spaces to Cuban culture with the screening of several feature movies of the island, said organizers.
The meeting with a calendar through October 23, is the result of a joint initiative of the State Radio and Television System (SERTV) the Cinema Experimental Group (GECU) and the University of Panama, together with the Cuban Institute of Cinema Art and Industry (ICAIC).
The program includes the screening of 19 documentaries and fiction productions of 14 nations representing the Caribbean region.
Among the countries included are Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Cuba, Curacao, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Martinique, Dominican Republic, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
For specialists, this initiative is an excellent opportunity to get to know a cinema production of a zone that reflects realities and worries of nations with a great cultural and idiomatic diversity.
Guests include Cuban filmmaker Rigoberto Lopez, president of the exhibit and director of works like Yo Soy del Son a la Salsa and Roble de Olor, both included among the works to be screened.
Also attending is actor Luis Alberto Garcia, reknowned performer in Cuba and abroad, playing the lead role in movies like La Vida es Silbar (Life is Whistling) also included in this seventh art event.
