Director's bio:

Miñuca Villaverde, Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), among which “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction) stand out. After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as “Blanca Puntica, a girl in love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists' Program Service, CAPS), “To my father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, still ironing “her husband shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. His documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban audiovisual material made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los Días de la coleccionista” (2010).