Herself
President Barack Obama visited Cuba on 2016, the first trip of a US president since the 1950s. In 2017, Donald Trump was elected signaling changes in relations with Cuban government. How to survive being who Cubans are?
Director
A 2009 Cuban drama by Rebeca Chávez taking place in Santiago de Cuba at the beginning of revolution. In the late 1950s, the city of Santiago de Cuba was afire, the site of some of the fiercest resistance to the murderous dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The film's narrative unfolds over 24 hours in the lives of several youthful members of the underground as they confront their own uncertainty about the morality of armed struggle and the necessity of severing bonds that had seemed unbreakable.
Director
A documentary on the action of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Congo (Zaire) in 1967.
Assistant Director
Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma, Haydee, Celia and Faustino Perez, among other key players in the Revolution.
Writer
El documental narra el encuentro entre Fidel Castro y Salustiano Leyva, un anciano que a los 11 años tuvo un encuentro con José Martí, en la breve visita que este hiciera a su casa el día que desembarcó por Playita de Cajobabo, el 11 de abril de 1895. Salustiano, sin saber por quién está siendo entrevistado debido a su mala visión, hace referencia a la presencia constante de Martí en la persona del comandante, y es luego, al final de la charla, que Fidel se da a conocer al anciano.
