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• 12 / 05 / 2009

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Widely known American Musician, Robert Kraft is to give a lecture at the National Hotel,as part of the program of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema underway in Cuba.

Kraft’s lecture is entitled ‘Music in Cinema’ and it is part of the Industry Sector program of the Festival.
 
The American musician has been nominated several times to the Oscar and Grammy awards. In 1989 he won one Oscar for the theme “Under the Sea”,of Walt Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ and on the same year he walked away with one gramophone for the soundtrack of that film.
 
Likewise, he has been the Musical Supervisor for renowned films including Titanic, Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, among others.
 
On television he has been in charge in series such as Ally McBeal, The X Files, and The Simpsons cartoon series, all of them showed in Cuban national TV.
 
More than one hundred films will be screened during the Festival, of them 104 competing for the Coral awards in the categories of long-feature fiction film, opera prima, short-feature fiction film, documentaries and cartoons.
 
For the second consecutive year, the Industry Sector of the event includes the Cultural ALBA Postproduction Contest “Latin

America First Issue” for unfinished audiovisual works that require financial aid to be completed.

Source: Cubarte