Cuba Hosts Seventh Caribbean Cinema Traveling Exhibition

Havana.- Documentaries by Aruba''s director, Shamira Raphaela, and U.S.''s Thomas Weston, opened today in Cuba the Seventh Caribbean Cinema Traveling Exhibition. Dealing with this marks Raphaela's debut in documentary, and the president of the Exhibition, Cuban filmmaker Rigoberto Lopez, described it as a courageous work because it deals with a family drama, the relationship of the director with her father and brother, both drug traffickers and drug addicts, who are in and out of jail all the time.

Meanwhile, "The Wind that Blows" tells the life of the inhabitants of the tiny island of Bequia, of the Caribbean archipelago of the Grenadines, where the inhabitants are engaged in shipbuilding and mainly whale fishing, as a tradition that defines the identity.

Weston has an extensive experience in cinema and television as a director of photography, among his most renowned works are the films "All the King's Men," Vanilla Sky," "I Am Legend" and "The Shooter," while the series include "Law & Order" and "The Blacklist."

About 26 films will be screened at the Infanta Multiplex Cinema Cultural Center during the Caribbean Cinema Traveling Exhibition, to be run from June 11 to 17.

Lopez told Prensa Latina that the event will tour all Cuban provinces and several Caribbean countries such as Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Colombia, Curacao, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Puerto Rico and Brazil, among others.

Source: PL