The story of the Cubans who arrived in Miami during the Mariel Boatlift and were housed in improvised camps in the heart of the city. Everyone lived together: men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals, separated only by cloth curtains that hung from ropes suspended between the beds, like floating walls.
Director:Miñuca Villaverde
Year of production: 1980
Country: United States
Running Time: 30’
Programming
Tuesday December 5
19:00h (GMT+1)
Zumzeig Cinecooperativa
C/ de Béjar, 53, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
Saturday December 9
17:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Production: Miñuca Villaverde, Fernando Villaverde
Genre: Documentary
Languages: Spanish, English
Photography: Miñuca Villaverde
Screenplay: Miñuca Villaverde, Fernando Villaverde
Editing: Miñuca Villaverde
Sound Design:Fernando Villaverde
Festival Selections: Individual Artist Fellowship - Division of Cultural Affairs of the Florida Department of State and the Fine Arts Council of Florida, documenta fifteen, Showcase "Paisajes para después de la utopía: Herencias en el cine cubano" - Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.
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).