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Born in Cuba in 1928, Tomàs Guttiérez Alea was one at the forefront of the New Latin American Cinema. With classics such as La Muerta de un burócrata, and Memorias del Subdesarrollo, Titòn, as he was known, painted a harsh but yet very endearing portrait of post-revolutionary Cuba.




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Sara Gómez, is one of those geniuses that was gone too soon, her first feature length film Da cierta manera was completed after her sudden death in 1977. The photography, the storyline and editing only confirms that Gómez was one of Cuba's most talented image writer.