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• 04 / 10 / 2010

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With more than a decade since its foundation, it reaches its eleventh celebration the Havana Film Festival of New York from April 16-23, with the participation of 14 countries and more than 40 movies, event that will pay homage to filmmaker Enrique Pineda Barnet.   

Many of his works included in his wide filmography will be exhibited, which portray diverse genres, like the number musical film of the Cuban cinema. "The Beauty of Alhambra", as well as the documentary feature film, a classic, "Giselle", in which the director capture, on the stage of Karl Marx Theater, the prima ballerina absoluta Alicia Alonso, and many other great figures of the Cuban National Ballet, among them the deceased Mirta Pla.   

Also in the homage, will be displayed on of his films, qualified as the forerunner of the current movement of video art: "Cosmorama" and his last fiction movie, "The Announcement", tribute to this master of the audiovisual, awarded with the National Prize for Cinema.   

The New York festival will be inaugurated, on the evening of April 16, with one of the best Cuban movies of the last decade, "The Broken Gods", of the filmmaker.   

Other productions of the Cuban cinema are being programmed, in their thematic and stylistic plurality: "The Thin Prize", of Juan Carlos Cremata and Iraida Malberti, the short animation film "Twenty Years", of Barbaro Joel Ortiz and, in the closing of the event will be projected the documentary film of Ian Padron, "Eso que anda ", about Los Van Van and the maestro Juan Formell.    

In this edition will be given for the first time, the "Havana Star" awards, to the best movie, best director, and best script, by a jury integrated by the producers Michael Hausman and Sandy Lieberson together with the filmmaker Louis Perego, president of the National Association of Independent Producers, award whose statuette is a starfish, of the Cuban plastic artist Yoan Capote.

By: Ignacio M. Doubrechatt  

Source: Cubasi