EICTV Cuba Documentary Film Courses

What looks to be an amazing online workshop run by one of our former professors at the EICTV.

The Global Institute for Research, Education, and Scholarship (GIRES) and its Centre for Media and Film Studies (CMFS) are so glad to announce this fabulous workshop. Its aim is to provide dramaturgical tools to go deeper into the aesthetical crafting of fiction films.

If you are a Humanistic or Social Sciences professional, interested in analyzing fiction films for your work and/ or pleasure... or if you are a journalist or a filmmaker willing to get the best out of your creative references, we invite you to take a look:

https://www.gires.org/activities/workshops/analyzing-fiction-films-dramaturgical-tools-for-researchers/

It is with great regret we inform you all that we have had to cancel a second documentary making workshop given the current pandemic. If we are able to offer one towards the end of the year, we will let you know. If not we hope to see you in 2022. Thanks for your understanding once more. Stay safe!

Today we say goodbye to the incredible documentary filmmaker, television presenter, educator and intellectual, Enrique Colina, who originally set up this course with the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television EICTV and Stephen Hart of University College London. As we are sure all of his students on the course will agree, he offered an unforgettable experience on the course and made huge contributions to the Cuban film landscape. Rest in Peace from the EICTV Cuba Documentary Film Courses team.

We regret to inform you all that we have made the decision to cancel this year's documentary making workshop due to the current coronavirus pandemic. We will let you know as soon as we have further information on next year's course. Thanks for your understanding. Stay safe!

Final presentation and screening to the public.

A wonderful end to this year's workshop wrapping up with a tour of Cuban history through its art Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Cuba, an incredible dinner kindly prepared by our professor, Rolando Almirante and a post screening music jam with some of the documentary contributors of the new student film 'Asincopado' at the Casa Gaia

A happy editor, waiting for the final projects to render

Discussing the edit script

Filming is in full swing. During this years summer workshop students are making two documentaries that explore the worlds of musicians and tradesmen in Habana Vieja.

Student film, El Palomero was at Hot Docs this year!

https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=89886~6052eab3-8904-4c72-8914-433e6b8b62f1&

The Pigeon Keeper In this sweeping study of love and loyalty in old Havana, Yoandris, a pigeon keeper, takes us into the heart of his world. As we watch him care for and cosset his birds, we discover why the role they play in his life is vital to his sense of self. Eileen Arandiga