The documentary Fito’s Havanaby the Cuban director Juan Pin Vilarwill be screened on Wednesday, November 9 during the 22nd edition of the Havana Film Festival in New York.
The film brings together more than 100 minutes of interviews, testimonies and images about the stay in the Cuban capital of Argentine singer-songwriter Fito Paéz, one of the rock icons in Latin America and in Spanish-speaking countries, as recalled in a report by Latin Press (PL).
The film is produced by Ricardo Figueredo and Josué García, in addition to the collaboration of Cooperativa Producciones, La Rueda Films and X Pin Producciones, the report points out.
It also has the support of the Fund for the Promotion of Cuban Cinema, while the photography is Raúl Prado’s seal, the edition is carried out by Marian Quintana and the soundtrack is assumed by Velia Díaz de Villalvilla.
A few months ago, the poet Alex Fleites He recalled in this medium that in this material the testimonies of Pablo Milanés, Cecilia Roth, Carlos Alfonso, Ele Valdés, Luis Alberto García and Wendy Guerra, among others, converge; sometimes as exceptional witnesses and others as mere spectators.
Juan Pin has directed more than one hundred broadcasts for Cuban television in different genres, including fiction materials One night with Nora (1988), Players (1990), Happy Birthday (1997), The executioner (2002) and the red bridge (2013). He is also the author of the documentary Paul Milanes (2015), which is not yet screened in Cuba.
The Havana Film Festival will take place until November 10 and is dedicated to the years of disclosure and promotion of Latin American filmography, for which it has screened a sample of more than 30 award-winning films at international events.
During the appointment, and according to PLthe tapes have been seen Portrait of Theresaby the Cuban director Pastor Vega, a classic of the Antillean nation’s filmography, and the documentary Bye daddya tribute to Aaron Vega, son of its director.
“Havana at your feet / I would not know how to love you in another way”
The films complete the sample. The oldestby Rigoberto López; dark lovesby Gerardo Chijona; Tales of another day, choral work coordinated by Fernando Pérez; Y Juan of the Deadby Alejandro Brugués, as a tribute to the actor Alexis Díaz de Villegas, who died in June of this year.
Cuban participation in the different categories in the contest (fiction, documentary and short film), includes the titles The Documentary Peopleby Inti Herrera; Nicanor’s returnby Eduardo del Llano; How do you spell love, by Vega Granados; Y Geminiby Orlando Mora.
