English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
After a month of rehearsal, Il Gruppetto presented on August 31st at 5:00 pm, in the old Palacio de las Cariátides del Malecón de La Habana, their spectacular Showtime, the universe of musical theater,which reinvents our Broadway-styled musical and attempts to “offer the original creators’ point of view and fill them, transform it with our … Continue reading “Showtime / Miguel Iturria Savon”
Since I was in the hospital waiting for my mother to undergo a small surgery (as you see, I keep going with hospitals), I had time to read the entire Granma newspaper from Friday, the thickest of the week with its 16 pages. Page 1 The person in charge of a business is the director. … Continue reading “Glosses / Regina Coyula”
At nine in the evening of December 31, coinciding with the guns of the Morro of Havana and after the staging of poems by representatives of OMNI ZONA FRANCA, Voices 12, the digital magazine of the alternative Cuban blogosphere, was presented. 12 issues say goodbye to 2011 and welcome to the twelfth year of the … Continue reading “VOICES 12 / Miguel Iturria Savón / Miguel Iturría Savón”
Translator’s note: This post is part of a series of conversations Regina is engaging in with the bloggers at La Joven Cuba. Why doesn’t the Cuban system collapse? For Alberto for your question of Friday. I admire the ingenuity of a journalism student. If you didn’t read the Nuevo Herald or one of those newspapers … Continue reading “Bad Handwriting in La Joven Cuba (24) / Regina Coyula”
After 1959 censorship began precisely because of the movies. Saba Cabrera Infante and Orlando Jimenez Leal — as one commentator rightly points out — and their Havana night is quite far from the imaginary rebel. PM was a cursed film, which I thought several years after its completion; and later seeing the nocturnal video clip, … Continue reading “Three Lovely Cubans Don’t Dance in the New Latin America Film Festival / Regina Coyula”
For Tatu, for The deaths I never had. I deferred my comments to my return. Your article contains inaccuracies; you can’t attribute your obvious indignation to a list appearing on a website (which you don’t cite, such that I can give my own opinion). To begin with the dead that you never had, you never … Continue reading “Bad Handwriting in La Joven Cuba (11) / Regina Coyula”
Talking about my cousin the filmmaker may seem excessive, but the Young Filmmaker’s Festival doesn’t have a single bad film. Miguel Coyula’s movie which was not accepted into the competition of the last Latin American Film Festival, is part of the program, so full disclosure is avoided. For those who aren’t aware, it already won … Continue reading “The Filmmaker Cousin and the Journalism Student / Regina Coyula”
When the 32nd edition of the Havana International New Latin American Film Festival opened, I commented on the event’s programme and the expectations by genres, nations and other details of interest, based on the preliminary information offered by the organizers. Now that the party is over, we need to recap the Cuban film industry, whose … Continue reading “The Cuban Films at the Festival / Miguel Iturria Savón”
Photo: Ana Gloria Lucas Today I honored my grandfather, but we must also celebrate life. Today is the birthday of poet Raul Rivero. I am posting this photo without editing it, because Raul celebrates among his friends Ramón Fernández Larrea, Pío Serrano, Manuel Díaz Martínez, Miguel Rivera and Rafael Alcides. November 23, 2010
I never knew my grandfather Miguel Coyula because he died on 23 November 1948. But his influence has touched even the Coyulas who came after me, the last of his grandchildren. We grew up listening to the courage that earned him the rank of commander of the Liberation Army, standing in the galaxy of young … Continue reading “A Commander Grandfather / Regina Coyula”
There’s a discrepancy between the sign board and program schedule at the Casa Gaia, located in Teniente Rey, between Águila and Cuba Streets in the historic quarter of Havana. That’s where art and thought now come together, but the sign board at the entrance announces the staging of Flechas del Ángel del Olvido (The Angel … Continue reading “Live Culture at Casa Gaia / Miguel Iturría Savón”
14ymedio, Havana, 26 December 2023 — After perpetrating numerous acts of censorship against the works of several filmmakers at the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Culture topped it all off last June. The broadcast on Cuban Television of an unauthorized version of the documentary La Habana de Fito (Fito’s Havana), directed by Juan … Continue reading “The Assembly of Filmmakers Challenges Censorship in Cuba”
14ymedio, Madrid, 10 November 2023 — On Thursday, the official journalist Alexis Triana was named as the new president of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic) by the Ministry of Culture. The position had been vacant since Ramón Samada Suárez was dismissed in July, after the filmmakers protested the showing of the documentary … Continue reading “An ‘Apparatchik’ is Appointed President of Cuba’s Film Institute to Deal With the Rebellion of Cuban Filmmakers”
EFE/14ymedio, Havana, 22 September 2023 — The independent Assembly of Cuban Filmmakers (ACC) accused government officials on Thursday of cutting off internet access during its last meeting in which several members were participating remotely. In a statement posted on social media, the ACC said there were problems with the internet connection during the meeting, which … Continue reading “Cuban Filmmakers Accuse Officials of Cutting Off Internet During Their Meeting”
14ymedio, Havana, July 16, 2023 — The Board of Directors of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) decided to “release from office” the president of that institution, Ramón Samada Suárez. According to the official statement published this Saturday on the entity’s Facebook page, his departure was due to a “personal request.” Although the brief note … Continue reading “‘Cuban Film Institute President Is Released From Office’ After the Scandal Over the Censorship of ‘Havana de Fito’”
