Director of Photography
Santiago de Cuba, 1956. Pablo, joven mulato de honda sensibilidad poética, estudia en la Universidad. Él ama a María, quien a pesar de la holgada posición de sus padres no es aceptado en los altos círculos sociales por el color de su piel.
Director of Photography
In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the Revolution, Alea practises what becomes a sustaining Cuban contribution to documentary. Engaging with Free Cinema and cinema-vérité, his camera seems to touch the faces of the new citizen one by one rather than as a single mass before a leader.
