The 13th Havana Film Festival was a Big Hit at the Box Office. Thanks to all of you who made it possible!
Distance from Guatemala won the Havana Star Prize for Best Film & Best Director
With my Heart in Yambo, Ecuador and Hard Labor, Brazil garnered awards as Best Documentary and Best Screenplay
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Havana Star Price Winners - Press Release
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Tributes
Eslinda Nuñez
Born on December 27 in Santa Clara, Cuba. She began her studies at the Academy of Theater Studies of Havana where she was a singer, actress and ballerina in the Havana Musical Theater cast directed by Alfonso Arau in 1962. She starred as classics such as Lucía, The Memories of Underdevelopment and The First Charge of the Machete. More
Opening night Screening and Gala |
Closing night Screening and Gala |
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Habanastation
Ian Padrón. 2011. SYNOPSISHabanastation depicts a view of everyday Cuban life through the eyes of Mayito, a young student and child of a successful jazz musician. When he gets lost during a May Day Celebration, he discovers a new and exciting world, so close, yet so far from his own Opening CeremonyThursday, April 12th:Screening 7:00 pm Reception to follow The NY Directors Guild Theatre |
Juan of the Dead
Alejandro Brugués. 2011. At the Closing Night Ceremony on April 20th, 7 pm, at the New York Directors Guild Theatre, Distancia / Distance by |
HFFNY news
- The 13th annual Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) runs April 12-20 with more than 40 highly anticipated and influential films from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the U.S. including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the U.S.
- 19 films will be competing to receive the third Havana Star Prize for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, as well as the second Havana Star Prize for Best Documentary, which will be awarded on April 20th at the Closing Night ceremony. More
- Proud to pay tribute to those influential figures of the Latin American cinema, the festival honors Cuban actress Eslinda Nuñez. For more than 40 years, Eslinda has participated in some of the most important films made in Cuba. More
- HFFNY is also honoring one of the masters of the art of photography, cinematographer Raul Perez Ureta.
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