Cuban Filmaker, Gloria Rolando, at Columbia College

04/15/2010 - 6:30pm
04/15/2010 - 9:00pm

Collins Hall / 624 S Michigan / Room 602

Gloria Rolando has been making films for more than 20 years at ICAIC (the Cuban National Film Institute) and is a founding member of Images of the Caribbean, a film collective dedicated to developing projects that focus on Afro-descendant communities in Cuba. On Thursday, she will screen and discuss the first chapter of her new work-in-progress Breaking the Silence, a project consisting of three chapters dedicated to the history of the Party of the Independents of Color (PIC) in Cuba. The first chapter documents the history of Afro-descendant Cubans’ struggles from colonial times through 1902, when Cuba achieved its independence from Spain. 

 For more info on Breaking the Silence see: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/breakingthesilence.htm

For a list of other films by Gloria Rolando see: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/gloriarolando.htm

2006 Interview with Gloria Rolando by Adventure Divas http://www.adventuredivas.com/divas/cuba/gloria-rolando/