January 29, 2015 – Montreal, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Song for Cuba, by St. John’s-based filmmaker Tamara Segura, will screen online and free of charge starting February 2 as part of a series of films about dance being shown at NFB.ca. The film is produced by Annette Clarke for the National Film Board of Canada’s Atlantic & Quebec Studio.
Directed by Cuban native Tamara Segura, Song for Cuba is an experimental documentary that addresses the nature of memory and music. The film follows a young Cuban couple charting a new course for their lives on an island in the North Atlantic.
Segura graduated in Film Direction from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and in Screenwriting from the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
Segura’s 2008 film Cocuyos (Fireflies) won the Martin Luther King Jr. Center’s Caminos Award. Her first feature-length screenplay, for the film Los Girasoles (The Sunflowers), was selected for the prestigious Foundation Carolina development program in Spain. In 2010, Segura was chosen for a fellowship under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. In 2013, she was the recipient of the RBC Michelle Jackson Award from the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival for her script Before the War.
Quick Facts
• Song for Cuba had its world premiere at the 2014 Atlantic Film Festival.
• The film features the original music of Patrick Boyle and the songs “Preferi Perderte” by Benny Moré and “Suavecito” by Ignacio Piñeiro.
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