Documentaries in Spanish by Cuban director Lizette Vila
Speaker: Lizette Vila
25 October 2007; 19.00-21.00
D402, Clement House, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE
Award-winning documentary producer, Lizette Vila was president of the Cuban Association of Cinema, Radio and Television. Lizette teaches workshops, judges film festivals all over the world, and represented her country at the International Women's Conference in Beijing. She currently directs a social project in La Havana, Proyecto Palomas (Cuba).
A large part of Lizette’s work deals with issues of gender and sexual identity. The three documentaries presented at Spanish in Motion are:
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La deseada justicia; 2007, 35 m. Testimonies of eight women survivors of domestic violence in Cuba
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Y hembra es el alma mía; 1997, 14 m. Testimonies of young Cubans struggling to find their gender identity
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El día que me quieras; 1994, 11 m. AIDS in Cuba through the testimony of a woman
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