New Cinema of Latin America, The

Synopsis: Michael Chanan’s two-part documentary on ‘New Cinema of Latin America’, made for the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which revolutionised cinema. Featured film-makers include Fernando Birri, T.G.Alea, Julio García Espinosa, Octavio Getino, Jorge Sanjinés, Jorge Silva and Marta Rodríguez, Carlos Diegues, Mario Handler and others, with contributions from writers and critics including Mario Benedetti, Hector Schmucler, Ambrosio Fornet and Ernesto Cardenal.

Part I, Cinema of the Humble, traces the evolution of its theoretical and aesthetic positions, and focuses on the development of cinema in Cuba and Nicaragua.

Part II, The Long Road, examines the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, and the emergence of a new women’s cinema.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 1983
Subjects: Film studies
Keywords: film directors; film theory; Latin America; women in cinema; political issues

Director: Michael Chanan
Contributor: Carlos Diegues; Fernando Birri; Jorge Sanjines; Jorge Silva; Julio García Espinosa; M Rodríguez, Marta Rodríguez; Mario Handler; Octavio Getino; Tomas Gutierrez Alea

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