by the El Reportero news services
The First International Meeting of Researchers of Mexican and Latin American Cinema will be held in Mexico next week. The event will be attended by speakers from eight nations including the host country, it was reported today.
A statement from the National Council for Culture and Arts informed the encounter will take place next Thursday and Friday at the National Cinematheque.
The opening conference, given by British Dolores Tierney of the University of Sussex, will focus on the cinema of Emilio ‘El Indio’ Fernandez, with an emphasis on the film Enamorada, 1946.
The 16 workshops will involve 75 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States, among other countries.
They will deal with various topics, such as Latin American cinema (1930-1990), Documentary, Golden Age I, Contemporary Mexican Cinema and Feminism and others.
Raúl Miranda, vice director of Documentation and Cataloguing of the National Cinemateque, pointed out that nowadays the world studies the Mexican cinema.
This encounter will be an example of it, as the inquiries on the subject are carried our in Spain, Latin America, England and the United States and even in other regions of the world.
Preserving Ernest Hemingway’s legacy in Cuba
The preservation of the Cuban legacy of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was held Cuba during the 15th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium, to be run at the capital’s O’’Farril Palace.
According to the event’s program, scheduled until June 21, the issue will be in charge of Mary Jo Adams, executive director of Finca Vigia Foundation, of the United States, and Ada Rosa Alfonso, top director of the Ernest Hemingway Museum, of Cuba.
The occasion will be conducive so that Adams and Alfonso review the 12 years of the collaboration between both institutions, to maintain live the work of one of the main novelists and short-story writer of the 20th century.
This second day has also reserved a space for the launching of two themes: “La etica de la vida deportiva en la novela Fiesta de Ernest Hemingway” (Ethics of Sporting Life in Novel Feast by Ernest Hemingway) and “Hemingway y Martha Gellhorn: En el amor y en la Guerra” (Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn: Love and War).
The launching of the book Hemingway: ese desconocido (Hemingway, The Unknown Man), as well as the screening of the documentary Hemingway II, will be carried out, as part of the agenda.
Roberto Carlos selected as the 2015 Latin Grammy Person of the Year
The internationally famous Brazilian singer-songwriter Roberto Carlos has been chosen as the 2015 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, said Tuesday organizers of the event.
During the gala -to be held in November this year- the artist known as O Rei (The King) will be honored for his longstanding career in which he has sold 120 million albums around the world.
Roberto Carlos established himself as one of the most prolific romantic artists in Latin America with such chart-topping hits as Detalles, Emociones, Amada Amante, Amigo, Propuesta, Lady Laura, and Mujer Pequeña.
The tribute that the Academy has prepared for the iconic Roberto Carlos will take place on November 18 – a day before the main gala – at the MGM Grand Arena Hotel in Las Vegas (Nevada). (Prensa Latina contributed to this report).
