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Caribbean Film Traveling Festival Holds Avilanian Documentary |
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Written by Sayli Sosa Barceló|
Thursday, 16 December 2010 08:47
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 An Avilanian documentary, Una misma raza (the same race), will be on at the Third Caribbean Film Traveling Festival, whose itinerary will include countries of our geographical area like Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Colombia and Venezuela.
The Audio-Visual sample by Avilanian filmmaker Jorge Luis Neyra, selected for the festival last February, devotes its 20 minutes to deal with the Eva Gaspar National Afro Caribbean Festival, sponsored by the Joseíto Fernández Culture House in the Primero de Enero municipality of Ciego de Avila. Every year the event is held to revitalize and promote Haitian dance and music and its legacy to the Cuban culture.
In addition, he provides a biographical approach to the figure of Eva Gaspar, the Haitian leader of of the Hatian community in the Primero de Enero, and the Nagó music and dance company, that was granted the National Community Culture Prize.
The making of the documentary also involved Eric Yanes Rodríguez (photography), Lyudmila Fonseca (production) and Ameth Pérez Rico (Edition), with the support of Avilanian Television.
The director of the documentary expressed that he is currently preparing a fiction short, to be filmed by the end of December and is planning a new documentary for next year with the support of the Exhibition House in Cuba.
The Third Festival includes films that constitute the authors' viewpoints of the Caribbean Diaspora worldwide; Non Caribbean authors whose stories express an authentic approach to the realities of the region are also participating. A special section is integrated by audiovisual for children and adolescents, including also films made by those age groups.
The main topics are the indigenous cultures of the region (their value and importance), globalisation and the impact on the Caribbean, the oral traditions (with emphasis on the folklore and wisdom of traditional cultures); the importance of the sea for the region, its heroes (Kom Anton, Jacques Romain); untold stories of struggle and liberation; the importance of culture recording; human rights, and domestic violence.
The traveling exhibition is a initiative of Film Art and Industry Cuban Institute, which, with the support of the regional offices of UNESCO in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Kingston (Jamaica) and Havana (Cuba), since 2006, aims at making visible the cinematographic universe of the Caribbean nations and promoting the exchange among filmmakers and authors of the audiovisual in these countries.
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