Havana Film Festival New York

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Havana Film Festival New York
LocationNew York City, USA
Founded2000
AwardsHavana Star Prize
Artistic directorDiana Vargas
Websitehffny.com (in English)

The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is a film festival, based in New York City, that screens cinema from across Latin America with a special focus on Cuba and its film industry.[1] It is a project of The American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with the mission of building cultural bridges between the United States and Cuba through arts projects.[2]

Since 2000, HFFNY has presented films featured at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. The Festival includes lectures, panel discussions, networking receptions and film industry workshops.[3][4]

History[]

Artistic Director Diana Vargas leads a Q&A with Cuban actor Hector Noas at AMC, 2019

The Festival was founded in 2000 by Ivan Giroud, President of the Havana Film Festival in Havana; Carole Rosenberg, President of The American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba; film producer Kenneth Halsband; and Marcia Donalds, who was a film professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[5][6]

In 2001, film producer and programmer Diana Vargas joined the festival, and since 2003 she has served as HFFNY's Artistic Director.[7]

In 2010 HFFNY began to award the Havana Star Prize to participating films for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The image for the prize was designed by Cuban artist Yoan Capote.[8] In 2011 HFFNY added a category for Best Documentary, and in 2014 the Havana Star Prizes for Best Actor and Best Actress were introduced.[9]

2000-2005[]

The inaugural Havana Film Festival NY was held at the Anthology Film Archives from March 17–26, 2000.[10][11] It featured an entirely Cuban program,[5] and screened over 40 productions, including features, documentaries, shorts and animated films that provided an overview of 41 years of Cuban filmmaking while showcasing several award-winning films from Havana's International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. The first HFFNY also included seminars on Cuban films and their distribution in the United States. The event was opened by singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte.[11]

The second HFFNY expanded its program to include Latin American films.[5] It ran April 16–23, 2001 and featured over 60 films from Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil and Panama. Daily screenings took place in Manhattan at NYU's Cantor Film Center, Clearview Cinema, and Anthology Film Archives, and Sunnyside Center Cinemas in Queens.[12] Approximately 8,000 people attended the 2001 HFFNY, according to the festival's co-director and programmer Pedro Zurita, in a 2002 New York Times interview.[2]

The third HFFNY ran April 18–27, 2002 at venues in Manhattan, Queens, and The Bronx. Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás was the honoree, and the festival opened with his film Honey for Oshun. Among the special events featured at the third HFFNY was a panel discussion with visiting directors on the role played by Latin American literature in filmmaking, which included the films Dark Side of the Heart 2 by Argentine director Eliseo Subiela, Miracle in Rome by Colombian filmmaker Lisandro Duque, and Mexican director Arturo Ripestein's No One Writes to the Colonel,[2] and a roundtable discussion with actor and activist Danny Glover and Congressman Charles Rangel at the Harvard Club on U.S. Cuban Relations.[11]

The fourth festival ran March 26-April 2, 2003 with its main slate of screenings at the Clearview Cinema in Manhattan.[13] Films also played at NYU Cantor Film Center and Anthology Film Archives, Sunnyside Center Cinema and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture in The Bronx.[14] The festival opened with the NY premiere of the Cuban film Nada by Juan Carlos Cremata and closed with the NY premiere of the Colombian film Bolivar soy yo by Jorge Alí Triana. Special events included a tribute to Cuban filmmaker Julio García Espinosa and the presentation of Rogelio París' 1964 musical documentary Nosotros la música.[13]

AFLFC President Carole Rosenberg introduces HFFNY honoree Walter Salles at the Quad Cinema, 2005

The fifth Havana Film Festival NY was presented by The New York Times and ran April 22–29, 2004.[15] It paid homage to Puerto Rican filmmaker Jacobo Morales and included 37 films from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and the Dominican Republic. The festival opened with the NY premiere of Cuban documentary Suite Habana by Fernando Pérez and closed with the NY premiere of Colombian comedy film El carro by Luis Orjuela.[16] The main slate of screenings took place at Manhattan's Quad Cinema, with special programs at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture in The Bronx and NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. HFFNY 2005 free panels and events included: A Conversation with Jacobo Morales, Cuban Cinema Classics: Revolutionary Documentaries, and New Languages for Latin American Cinema- a roundtable discussion with filmmakers Miguel Coyula, Luis Ospina, Sergio Wolf, Sinnel Sandoval, Alejandro Fernandez, Patricia Riggen, Mercedes Jimenez, Luis Orjuela, Sandra Bilicich, Luciana Tomasi, Elias Jimenez, Pedro Diaz, Jacobo Morales, Alejandro Chomski, Fernando Pérez and Rigoberto Lopez.[17]

The sixth HFFNY ran April 15–21, 2005, and included tributes to Cuban director Pastor Vega and Brazilian director Walter Salles.[18] The program featured newly-released independent films from and about Latin American and the Caribbean alongside classics, documentaries, short and animated films from 12 countries. Free events occurred at NYU's King Juan Carlos Center and included the children's program Animation 4 Kids.[19] Screenings also took place at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan, and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.[18]

Havana Star Prize Winners[]

Best Film (Fiction)[]

Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2010[8] Memories of Overdevelopment Memorias del Desarrollo Miguel Coyula  Cuba
2011[20] Ticket to Paradise Boleto al paraíso Gerardo Chijona  Cuba
2012[21] Distance Distancia Sergio Ramírez  Guatemala
2013[22] Rat Fever Febre do Rato Claudio Assis  Brazil
2014[23] Behavior Conducta Ernesto Daranas  Cuba
2015[24] Refugiado N/A Diego Lerman  Argentina
2016[25] Magallanes N/A Salvador del Solar  Peru
2017[26] Last Days in Havana Últimos días en La Habana Fernando Pérez  Cuba
2018[27] Joaquim N/A Marcelo Gomes  Brazil
2019[28] Retablo N/A Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio  Peru

Best Director[]

Year Director(s) English film title Original film title Country
2010[8] Rafi Mercado Lie Miente  Cuba
2011[20] Fabián Hofman I Miss You Te extraño  Argentina
2012[21] Sergio Ramírez Distance Distancia  Guatemala
2013[22] Fernando Lavanderos Things as They Are Las Cosas Como Son  Brazil
2014[23] Diego Quemada-Díez The Golden Dream La jaula de oro  Cuba
2015[24] Arturo Sotto Diaz Havana's Boccaccio Boccaccerías habaneras  Argentina
2016[25] Santiago Mitre Paulina La patota  Peru
2017[26] José María Cabral Woodpeckers Carpinteros  Dominican Republic
2018[27] Marcelo Gomes Joaquim N/A  Brazil
2019[28] Alejandro Gil Innocence Inocencia  Peru

Best Screenplay[]

Year Screenwriter(s) English film title Original film title Country
2010[8] Ray Figueroa The Warehouse La bodega  Guatemala
2011[20] Diana Cardozo I Miss You Te extraño  Argentina
Beatriz Novaro, Marina Stavenhagen Two Girls... One Road Viaje redondo  Mexico
2012[21] Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas Hard Labor Trabalhar Cansa  Brazil
2013[22] Eliseo Subiela Vanishing Landscapes Paisajes devorados  Argentina
2014[23] Carlos Lechuga Molasses Melaza  Cuba
2015[24] Arturo Sotto Diaz Havana's Boccaccio Boccaccerías habaneras  Cuba
2016[25] Pavel Giroud, Alejandro Brugués, Pierre Edelman The Companion El acompañante  Cuba
2017[26] Daniel Hendler, Alberto Rojas Apel The Candidate El candidato  Argentina
 Uruguay
2018[27] Ernesto Daranas, Marta Daranas Sergio & Sergei Sergio & Serguei  Cuba
2019[28] Ana Katz Florianópolis Dream Sueño Florianópolis  Argentina
 Brazil

Best Documentary[]

Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2011[20] Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba N/A Estela Bravo  Cuba
2012[21] With My Heart in Yambo Con mi corazón en Yambo María Fernanda Restrepo  Ecuador
2013[22] Sibila N/A Teresa Arredondo  Chile
 France

 Peru

2014[23] Of Kites and Borders De cometas y fronteras Yolanda Pividal  Mexico

 United States

2015[24] Another Island Otra Isla Heidi Hassan  Cuba
 Spain
2016[25] The Pawn La Prenda Jean-Cosme Delaloye  Guatemala

  Switzerland

2018[27] Filiberto N/A Freddie Marrero  Puerto Rico

 Venezuela

2019[28] Away from Meaning Lejos del sentido Olivia Luengas  Mexico

See also[]

References[]

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