Lucia on Movies and Plastic

Selected among the ten best Iberoamerican films, the full-length movie Lucía gathers three love stories. The first one recreates the XIX century romanticism and the experience of a woman surrounded by war and betrayal; the second one, soaked with the 30th decade's enchant, features a girl who is wrestling between passion and death in a middle of a convulse political situation; in the last one, the 60s presents a young rural girl, upholding her rights in front of a jealous husband. Two memorable stories and an anthological comedy.

This important Cuban film was made on 1968 by Humberto Solás, who was also in charge of the script together with Julio G. Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez. The Leo Brouwer`s music and the brilliant performances of Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moré, Ramón Brito and Adolfo Llauradó in the leading roles, transformed it in a milestone piece of Cuban cinematography.

To embellish its presentations, the outstanding Cuban painter and designer Raúl Martínez, recreated the image of Lucía in a poster of exquisite quality. This Camagüey-born creator, who focused on abstraction around the 50s, started the figurative style after 1963, progressively removing the distictive features from his previous work, to totally achieve new pictures based on popular paintings.

He elaborates a new style from the union of his pictorial and graphic work: from the first picture (1965) until the cover of Cuba Magazine (1969), the Martí`s Heads give evidence of the artist`s development.

His talent is also present in his designs on magazines and books, through his labor at the Cuban Institute of Book, creating its logo. He was hailed also for his posters for movies, from which the Cuban film Lucia is a good example of high artistic quality, fitness to the theme and good use of the poster`s technical possibilities as a wide communicative channel.

Another vision of Lucía was made by the young artist Rubén A. Iglesias (1970) in his poster devoted to this film. Graduated from San Alejandro Arts School, Iglesias has been working for diverse publishing houses, making also designs for magazines and other national and international mediums. His artwork has been exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. He is member of Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) and Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).

Adios Muchachos.

In May, 2002, the Mystery Writers of America conferred to this small picaresque work of Daniel Chavarría, ''Adiós Muchachos'', the Edgar Allan Poe Prize in the category of Novel in Popular Editions.

After writing his first novel Joy, winner of the Cuban Capitán San Luis Prize for the best police novel from 70-80 decades, Chavarría jumpstarted a literary career that earned him recognition as one of the greatest Latin American narrators, attending events devoted to mystery novel such as Semana Negra de Gijón.

Author, in addition, of diverse literary and political issues and scripts for radio and TV, Daniel Chavarría is considered himself as pupil of that ''extraordinary fable narrator'' named Alejo Carpentier. Regarding to this, he expressed: ''I`m his pupil, he was master of the Spanish language in the last century, a person to whom I devoted El Ojo de Cibeles, my awarded novel in Mexico''.

Alicia in Multimedia

For the first time in multimedia, the life and work of Alicia Alonso, the Prima Ballerina Assoluta, creator of the prestigious Cuban School of Ballet. The dance lover will find in this work a peerless compiling of a chronology undertaking different stages of her career and numerous critics made by dance specialists from diverse parts of the world, plus multiple details of the more-than-fifty-years career of this exceptional dancer. It includes 28 videos of her best performances and choreographies.

The creative work of this diva has been also featured in video by Héctor Veitía, Marisol Trujillo and Víctor Casaus, in a 111-minutes material it presents an interesting and illustrative portray of one of the best dancers of all times. Interviews, masterful lectures, scenes of the most famous ballets and the peerless performances of Giselle and Carmen in three important documentaries; La Clase, Encuentro and Alicia.

In the first one of these documentaries, The Cuban Prima Ballerina Assoluta is giving a lesson to some pupils attending the National Festival of Dance and Ballet schools, celebrated in Santiago de Cuba in April, 1980; the second one is a reportage about her meeting with the Soviet dancer Vladimir Vasiliev and the last documentary features, through interviews, materials from archive and ballet fragments, diverse aspects of the Alicia Alonso`s artistic career and her labor at the National Ballet of Cuba.