ABOUT CUBAN CINEMA CLASSICS
Cuban Cinema Classics presents a showcase of Cuba's award winning revolutionary documentaries.
The initiative was established to address the difficulty of obtaining Cuban documentaries with English subtitles for educational and cultural purposes in the U.S. CCC distributes the documentaries to colleges and universities, media arts centers, museums, and other agencies. The organization of the series in thematic volumes and the subtitles in English enhance the possibilities for their use in educational and cultural programming. While educators and programmers benefit from the availability of subtitled Cuban documentaries on video and DVD, Cuban filmmakers and media organizations benefit from the increased audience for their production.
All of the documentaries included in the Cuban Cinema Classics collection have been screened and won awards at major film festivals around the world. The documentaries, made during the past 45 years by some of Cuba's most acclaimed filmmakers, represent a diversity of styles, subjects and perspectives.
With this ambitious project digitizing and subtitling Cuban documentaries, the material is being disseminated and preserved.
Biographies
Ann Marie Stock
founder/director of Cuban Cinema Classics, is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She specializes in Cuban cinema and Latin American culture. Dr. Stock is the editor of Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Univ. of Minnesota Press). Supported by Rockefeller, MacArthur, Fulbright, and other organizations, her research has been published in numerous books and journals. She has served as a juror at various film events, including Sundance and Cinergia (Costa Rica). Dr. Stock also regularly delivers lectures at universities and film festivals and participates in programming for the annual Havana Film Festival of New York. Currently, Dr. Stock is preparing a book project that traces Cuban cinema from the special period to the present and is contributing to the preparation of a documentary on revolutionary filmmaking in Cuba.
Luis Enrique Prieto Armas
is a specialist at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba. He collaborates on the Cuban Cinema Classics (CCC) project as a both translator and an assistant. In addition to CCC, he has worked with the Instituto Cubano para Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP) as a specialist; as such, he delivered lectures at various universities and organizations in the United States.
Support Cuban Cinema Classics
Cuban Cinema Classics needs your help to continue our work. Individuals, organizations and institutions wishing to support the aims and goals of Cuban Cinema Classics may make tax-deductible contributions. Your support ensures that Cuba's film tradition will be disseminated and preserved.
We acknowledge support from the following institutions and individuals:
- Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC)
- Fundación Ludwig de Cuba
- College of William & Mary in Virginia
- American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba
- Robert and Polly Dunn Foundation
- Heidi Mayor
