Southern Film Festivals
Director:
Ivan Giroud
Havana International Film Festival of Latin America
The first edition of the Festival took place from the 3 to the 10 of December of 1979 and the juries were presided over by Gabriel García Márquez and Santiago Alvarez. More than 600 film directors of Latin America responded to this first call made by the Cuban Institute of the Art and Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC).
From his first editions the Festival has been an airdrop platform of the cinematographies of this region and also it has served as context to conferences on cultural identity, production and distribution of the local cinematography and new technologies.
In the official Web site of the Festival that began to work in December of the 2000, is available a file with preceding editions. The site allows to obtain details on the films offerers in the different versions of the Festival, as well as retrospectives and tributes that the event includes. In the section Others, the visitors have complementary information as interviews or press conferences.
In the superior part of the Home Page, the visitors have a series of general options: Festival Information, Jury, Regulation, Accreditations, Inscriptions and Havana that offers chronicles and articles to approach to the soul of the capital. In short, in the section Recommended sites there are links for other Latin American Festivals of cinema.