Vladimir Ceballos, Independent Filmmaker: "Cursed be Your Name, Freedom: Rock and AIDS in 1990s Cuba"

Film screening followed by Q&A.
Vladimir Ceballos Santos is a Cuban filmmaker based in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born in 1964 in Pinar del Rio and studied film in the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Early in his career, he produced nationally acclaimed short films and documentaries, such as Selliet (winner of the critic prize at the Young Film Festival in Havana in 1990) and The Window, winner of the grand prize at the First Festival of Young Filmmakers at the University of Havana. In 1994, he filmed the underground documentary Maldito sea tu nombre, Libertad, which caused him to be expelled from the University of Havana and seek political asylum in the US. He was invited by Brown University in that same year to show his films and granted a three-year fellowship from the organization Freedom to Write. Since leaving Cuba, Ceballos has also lived in Puerto Rico, where he worked as a resident filmmaker in the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Mexico City, where he worked in the film industry for three years. He is currently an independent filmmaker and is actively working on several productions.

(Co-sponsored by CLALS, Cinema and Media Studies, and Romance Languages. Organized by Carmen Torre Pérez, Ph.D. Candidate, Hispanic Studies.)

Event will be Spanish!