Yesterday, the EICTV welcomed the honourable ambassador of Timor-Leste to Cuba, Mr. Olímpio M.G.A Miranda Blanco. To mark the occasion of celebration of the 11th anniversary of Timor-Leste independence, the Embassy wanted to share this day with the School: “because it is a reference of film achievement in Cuba”.
The scriptwriter, dramatist and professor has developed numerous projects such as films by our graduate Jaime Rosales. He visited the School in April, as he has been doing for 5 years, to advice third year scriptwriting students’ theses.
Enric Rufas is a Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics graduate. He has delivered scriptwriting lessons at ESCAC and at Carlos III University. He is a dramatist. He is also a radio and television scriptwriter. As a film scriptwriter, he has developed numerous projects such as films by our graduate Jaime Rosales. La soledad (2007) won several Goya Awards including the Best Film Award. As a dramatist, he got Antoni Santos Antolí Award in 1997 for the comedy En Temps de Pau. He visited the School in April, as he has been doing for 5 years, to advice third year scriptwriting students’ theses.
Graduates Carlos Lechuga (scriptwriting, 2008), Eloy Enciso (documentary, 2003) and Aleksandra Maciuszek (documentary, 2012) have recently won awards at various film festivals around the world.
The EICTV signs a collaboration agreement with the NGO Cuba Cooperación and with the Artemisa Provincial Direction of Hydraulic Resources. The agreement includes the installation and set in motion of an automatic weather station in the School area donated by the French NGO Cuba Cooperación in the near future. This way, the EICTV will contribute to the improvement of the environment of the Ariguanabo Basin in San Antonio de los Baños and it will take part in the project “Early Warning System for Severe Hydrometeorological Phenomena and Water Quality Loss in the Ariguanabo Basin”
Alfredo Guevara, a man who devoted his life to cinema, founded the ICAIC and was president of the International Festival of New Latin American cinema, died today. Approximately a year ago the EICTV paid tribute to him `for a life devoted to the dream of creating a New Latin American Cinema´. Today the Cuban film world grieves for his death.
The 14th Havana Film Festival New York will take place from April 12 through 19, 2013. This year ´s edition is special since it will pay homage to Fernando Birri, `Father of New Latin American Cinema´. Four films made at the EICTV and a series of films programmed by Luciano Castillo, head of the media library André Bazin will be presented at the festival.
The French actress and director visited the school with a delegation of French filmmakers that included the director Pierre Etaix. Sandrine talked to our students and professors about her experiences. She left this message on a wall of the school: “Être à la bonne distance être derrière le masque puis le laisser tomber”.
The French-Swiss artist Thoma Vuille is at the EICTV to draw some of its areas. We talked to him about the origin of his artistic creation and his presence in Chris Marker’s documentary.
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