By Elizabeth López Corzo. 2010 was a year of anniversaries for Cuban cinema, but above all things it was bountiful for the industry, because the number of films produced here increased. Without a doubt, that’s the main achievement to stimulate and maintain the spirit of our audiovisual feature.And if we talk about renovation, the 9th National Exhibition of Young Filmmakers captured the attention of many public again, especially of young people.">By Elizabeth López Corzo. 2010 was a year of anniversaries for Cuban cinema, but above all things it was bountiful for the industry, because the number of films produced here increased. Without a doubt, that’s the main achievement to stimulate and maintain the spirit of our audiovisual feature.And if we talk about renovation, the 9th National Exhibition of Young Filmmakers captured the attention of many public again, especially of young people.">

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By Elizabeth López Corzo. 2010 was a year of anniversaries for Cuban cinema, but above all things it was bountiful for the industry, because the number of films produced here increased. Without a doubt, that’s the main achievement to stimulate and maintain the spirit of our audiovisual feature.

And if we talk about renovation, the 9th National Exhibition of Young Filmmakers captured the attention of many public again, especially of young people, who went to the halls to discover themselves, because precisely the films by new filmmakers lead us to think about our reality in all its complexity.

The Exhibition is increasingly greater in participants and audience. Furthermore, in its last edition it housed a selection from fifteen foreign festivals from different latitudes.

Once again the “Cine Pobre” (The Low-Budget Cinema) brought together vanguard filmmakers who bet on the aesthetic search and risk even when they have little resources. The island also hosted a new edition of the Caribbean Traveling Film Exhibition, which increasing makes more regional talent meet in a greater exchange in film production, distribution and exhibition.

Almost in the middle of the year and to refresh our visuality, there arrived on the island the French Film Festival, the biggest of its kind in America and that attracts some 100,000 spectators in Cuba.

The two great anniversaries went to the Cinemateca de Cuba (Cuban Cinemathequé) –the institution that brings the classics we always long for to see again and the latest from the universal seventh art– and Revista Cine Cubano (Cuban Cinema Magazine), the oldest in Ibero America. Thanks to that anthological publication many of us started to love cinema from inside.

The summary of the film production, as we said at the beginning, was favorable: six Cuban fiction feature films reached the contest of the 32nd Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, on behalf of experienced and young directors. “Jose Marti. El ojo del canario” (turned into a classic now); “Casa vieja”; “Larga distancia”; “Boleto al paraíso”; “Afinidades” and “Molina’s Feroz” attracted the attention of the public and first two deserved important awards.

The Festival was the culmination of the film activity and had a record figure on exhibition: more than 500 films. A real party for moviemagoers.

Cubasi Translation Staff

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