Friday 11 September 2015
Cambridge Film Festival
Screening of the documentary Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Héroes invisibles: Afroamericanos en la guerra de españa)
Dir. Alfonso Domingo, Jordi Torrent. USA/ Spain, 2012, 74 mins.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Followed by a Q&A with Jordi Torrent and Professor Paul Preston.
Time: 15.30 h.
Place: Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew's St, Cambridge CB2 3AR
In collaboration with the Catalan Observatory
Two thousand eight hundred North Americans volunteered to defend the Republic of Spain during the Spanish civil war, but few people know that many of the volunteers were African Americans. This documentary tells their story and their fight for democracy and for the civil rights that were denied to them in their own country. The documentary includes interviews with volunteers and archival footage and pictures from the era. This documentary thoroughly researches a little known episode of XX century history and has been co-directed by Jordi Torrent, who visited the festival not long ago to present his film, The Redemption of the Fish.
Jordi Torrent and Paul Preston