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Event Description
In this lecture, Sisy G6mez Pena will reflect on her work as a director and scriptwriter of short fiction and documentary films, within the context of a new generation of filmmakers born in Cuba after the 1990s. She will share a sample of her works, among them: • Sombra de luz, depicting ordinary Cuban life • Reflejos, awarded the UNETE Prize of the United Nations and selected by UNICEF, as part of the campaign against symbolic violence • Cuando truena, addressing the issue of internal migration and awarded the Support Prize of the Norwegian Embassy in Cuba, and the GO-Cuba Award of the World Cinema Amsterdam Festival • Sisy's Salvage, a short film that symbolically explores the power relationship between couples via sex, violence, and passion • The teaser of Habitacidn 7, her first feature film, a suspense thriller
Identifier
FIDC007481
Document Type
Flyer
Event Date
2-21-2018
Publisher
Cuban Research Institute
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Recommended Citation
Gomez Pena, Sisy, "Alternative Cinema by Young Cubans" (2018). Cuban Research Institute Events. 410.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/410
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