Cuba Debates on Women Role in African, Caribbean Cinema
- Submitted by: manso
- Arts and Culture
- 09 / 16 / 2011
By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte. Havana, Sep 15 (Prensa Latina) The role of women in the African and Caribbean cinema is being analyzed on Thursday during the First Meeting of Filmmakers from those regions, attended by film directors from 30 countries.
Filmmakers such as Senegalese Apolline Traore, Bahamian Maria Govan, and Belizean Katia Pradis will offer a round table on challenges, prospects and difficulties they have to face to produce their films.
The program includes a panel entitled "Cinema, audiovisual aids and the construction of childhood and youth´s identity in Africa and the Caribbean," presided over by UNICEF representative in Cuba Juan Jose Ortiz and Jamaican professor Rachel Moseley-Wood.
The session will close with a lecture by U.S. academician Henry Louis Gates, from the University of Harvard, and the screening of a documentary film on miscegenation and Africans´ legacy in the Caribbean.
The event, taking place during the International Year of African Descent declared by UNESCO, will conclude on Friday, September 16, at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba with the approval of a Final Declaration.
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