Entries by Michael

Havana 35

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The Cuban dissenting blogger Yoani Sanchez has written a somewhat cynical blog about Havana’s Film Festival, or to give its full title, the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, whose 35th edition closed on Sunday, in which she comments that “The Festival” (period… as we call it), had a clear ideological focus from the […]

Putney Debater in Havana

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Some reports on my activities at the Havana Film Festival, for readers of Spanish: Variedad temática desde la documentalística – a review of Memoria interrumpida. There are several reports on the Seminar, ¿Nuevo? ¿Cine? ¿Latinoamericano? The fullest is Hacia un nuevo concepto de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, but also see Tecnología de vanguardia, el reto del nuevo cine (El Telégrafo, Ecuador) […]

Putney Debater en La Habana

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Algunos informes sobre mis actividades en el 35 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano… Variedad temática desde la documentalística El Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano estrena, en su 35 edición, la cinta inglesa Interrupted Memory (Memoria Interrumpida), del director inglés Michael Chanan, quien asume las responsabilidades de la edición y la fotografía, para conseguir un relato colectivo a […]

Havana premiere for ‘Interrupted Memory’

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Very pleased to share the news that my new film, ‘Interrupted Memory / Memoria interrumpida’, will receive its world premiere at the Havana International Film Festival, 5-15 December 2013, where I will also be participating in a panel discussion on contemporary documentary.   Come to a preview screening at the University of Roehampton on Wednesday […]

Havana premiere for ‘Memoria interrumpida’

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Interrupted Memory / Memoria interrumpida will receive its world premiere at the Havana International Film Festival, 5-15 December 2013 A documentary about memory and politics in Argentina and Chile. The remembered experiences of popular militancy and resistance, military coups and state repression, shape a collective narration of recent history in the two countries, set off […]

Screening at Chile on Film

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Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required). http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer film, Interrupted Memory, on memory and politics in Argentina and Chile, coming soon.

Chile on Film: A One-day Symposium

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Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required). http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer film, Interrupted Memory, on memory and politics in Argentina and Chile, coming soon.