• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 08 / 21 / 2011

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By: Ana Julia Suarez Cruz. 00:11Caracas, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuban filmmaker Daniel Diaz defended Latin American cultural integration as a way to promote the production and spreading of the films made in the region.

During a visit to this South American country to launch his full-length feature "Lisanka," the director insisted that it is necessary to promote co-productions and mutual support to show that good films can be made with limited resources.

In an interview with Venezolana de Television, Diaz said those mechanisms contribute to increase the spreading of work done in the region because when the audience watch themselves represented in their way of speaking and being, they are motivated and go to the cinema.

Diaz also rejected criticism at films made in the region, which according to some people only show the poverty existing in those nations.

In this regard, the Cuban filmmaker said that though in fact many Latin American films show poverty topics, in a very intimate and emotional way they also show other realities.

Diaz said that "Lisanka" is a romantic comedy that tells about a love story, which takes place in a Cuban town in the 1960's, after the triumph of the Revolution.