Santiago Álvarez
Directing
Biography
Santiago Álvarez Román (March 8, 1919 – May 20, 1998) was a Cuban documentary filmmaker and a central figure in revolutionary Latin American cinema. After studying in the United States, he returned to Cuba in the mid-1940s, where he worked as a music archivist for television and became active in Communist Party circles. Following the Cuban Revolution, he was a founding member of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and went on to direct its influential weekly Latin Ame…
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Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez
1999
Himself
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
2013
Santiago Alvarez
Rocha Que Voa
2002
Self (voice)
Coarse Salt
1984
Horacio
Towards Unity and Victory
1937
Memória Cubana
2010
Self (archive footage)
Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema
1984
Self