The digital world premiere of the documentary Memorias de Carlos Márquez-Sterling, based on a 1990 eight-hour interview with Carlos Márquez-Sterling filmed by the late Cuban writer Miguel Gónzalez Pando as part of the Cuban Living History Project at Florida International University (FIU). This unique documentary was edited and produced in 1998 by writer and journalist Uva de Aragón, with the support of Village Film and Diario Las Américas, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Carlos Márquez Sterling (pictured center left above).
Following the streaming of the film, there will be formal commentary and a Q&A session via Zoom with Uva de Aragón and historian Néstor Carbonell, moderated by Ricardo Gil, director of our History Program.
This special cinema event is part complements our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
To watch the film at the indicated date and time, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx9JPukBdpM
To join the Q&A, click here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88399791785
Carlos Márquez-Sterling (1898 – 1991) was a Cuban lawyer, writer, politician and diplomat. He taught law and economics at the University of Havana, and founded the Manuel Sterling School of Journalism. He served in Cuba’s House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Party and was elected president of that body in April 1936 after weeks of deadlocked negotiations among parties, none of which controlled a majority of votes in the chamber. He also served as Minister of State and Minister of Education. In 1940, he was the president of the constitutional assembly that over the course of six months wrote the 1940 Constitution of Cuba. In the 1950s, he was detained many times because of his opposition to Batista dictatorship. He ran unsuccessfully in the 1958 for President of Cuba as head of the Free Peoples Party. The following year the government of Fidel Castro placed him under house arrest. He then went into exile in the United States, where he taught at Columbia University, among other colleges and universities. He also wrote opinion columns for the Spanish-language newspaper Diario de las Américas, and more than twenty books, including a history of Cuba, Historia de Cuba Desde Colón Hasta Castro (1963). In 1984, the Florida House of Representatives honored him for his contribution to “Cuba, democracy, justice and liberty”.
This is a complementary presentation of the CCCNY’s 21st annual congreso, our flagship event, this year titled El periodismo en Cuba: Desde sus orígenes hasta el presente, to be held online on Saturday, November 19 and Sunday, November 20, 2022.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.
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