The 33rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana will feature an interview with the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. The interview, which was recently found by film director Rebeca Chávez in the archives of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), will be screened during the upcoming cinema festival scheduled for December 1-11, 2011 in Havana. Chávez’s film, El día más largo, will be screened out of competition in the festival’s section Made in Cuba.
Using the unscreened interview, the Cuban filmmaker came up with the documentary El día más largo (The Longest Day), which contains the original dialogue of Fidel Castro with a reporter at the airport of the central Cuban province of Camaguey. The interview took place only a few days after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, while the Cuban leader was heading the Rebel Army’s Victory Caravan towards the country’s capital, where they arrived on January 8, 1959.
Rebeca Chavez’s first full-length feature film, Ciudad en rojo—set in Santiago de Cuba during the revolutionary struggle against Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in the late 1950s—had its premiere in 2009.
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