An exclusive one-night-only screening of Jorge Dalton’s En un rincón del alma, an exceptional documentary that registers the moving testimonial of the Cuban novelist, journalist and screenwriter Eliseo Alberto, who died on July 31, 2011 in Mexico City, where he had lived since 1990. The film traces the Cuban Revolution since its inception through the memory of Eliseo Alberto de Diego García Marruz, nicknamed Lichi. It is the emotional wheezing cadence of his monologue that threads a heartrending visual history of events that tore a nation apart. Stripped of nostalgia, it is narrated with courage, often with irony, yet also with a sense of shame.
The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Jorge Dalton, the youngest son of the legendary Salvadoran poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton, is director, producer of cinema, video and television and is regarded among the most outstanding documentary filmmakers in Central America today. He will be in attendance and will participate in a Q&A after the screening, moderated by writer Alexis Romay.
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Award-winning filmmaker Jorge Dalton belongs to the Central American Film Association and presently works as film director at the Ministry of Culture in San Salvador.
A former student of filmmakers Santiago Alvarez and Fernando Birri, he was a founder of the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. During his years in Cuba he was one of the most notable young directors at the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, directing several television programs from 1987 to 1993. He has also worked in Mexico, the U.S., and Honduras. Today he is the driving force of the new Salvadoran film movement, founded seven years ago by the Oscar-winning Salvadoran filmmaker André Guttfreund. His most outstanding achievement at the Ministry of Culture has been creating the Center for Audiovisual Production and the National Film Institute and Film Library of El Salvador. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, has directed more than 17 documentaries and has been invited to serve
as juror in various international film festivals, including the New York Latino Film Festival.
Alexis Romay is the author La apertura cubana andSalidas de emergencia, both novels; Los culpables, a book of sonnets; and Diversionismo ideológico, a compilation of satirical décimas. His essays have appeared in important journals in Italy, the U.S., Spain, and Mexico, among them, Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana,
Caleta, Replicante, Review Magazine, NBC News and Letras Libres.
He lives in New Jersey with his wife, his son, his dog,
and several books.
This film is presented as part of our year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary
of the City of Havana, culminating in our 18th annual flagship conference,, this year
titled Oda a La Habana: The first 500 years, to be held at Barnard College on
Sunday, November 17th, 2019.
Co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes
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