PUTNEY DEBATER
A personal blog
Interrupted Memory
News of upcoming screenings and other information can be found here.
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Havana 35
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 beginning to promote creations filled with social criticism, a reflection of regional problems or the historic memory of the dictatorships that plagued Latin America.
I laughed when I read this because the last of those — well, that’s me, folks, in the shape of my new documentary, Interrupted Memory, which premiered at the Festival. OK, it wasn’t the only film on the subject. All I can say is that I’m very happy to have been screened in such company, even if Yoani didn’t bother to come to the screening. Read more
Putney Debater in Havana
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)
- Nuevo cine latinoamericano en la mira de festival habanero (ACN, Cuba)