HAVANA, Cuba, April 9 (acn) A Chinese Contemporary Film Festival will be held in this capital at the Riviera Movie Theatre, from April 9 to 15.
The Director General of the Cinema Bureau of China’s State Radio, Cinema and Television Administration, Tong Gang, told the press on Wednesday that, during his visit, he will exchange ideas with his Cuban colleagues and will find new ways of cooperation between the film industries of the two countries.
Accompanying Gang are Jiang Ping, vice-president of the China Film Group; Liu Cheng, director of the Cinema Bureau’s International Division for Cooperation; Liu Zhige, cameraman from CCTV-6 television channel, movie director Huo Jiangi and actresses Yihong Jiang and Yan Danchen.
The film Li Shuangliang, by Hou Jiangi, opens the Festival. The movie tells the story of a retired worker who cleaned up the residues of a foundry accumulated over 40 years and turned the place into a beautiful garden.
Also scheduled to be screened are Guerreros de cielo y tierra, Copla de amor, Canción del Tibet, Juntos, Silenciosas piedras sagradas and Mi mamá juez.
China’s cinematographic industry produces some 400 films a year, as well as 20 animated films and over 100 television series.
Children and adolescence, the life of farmers and social development are among the main themes of Chinese movies.
(Comienza mañana Semana de Cine Chino en La Habana Octavio Borges Pérez)
jueves, 9 de abril de 2009
Richmond California Support the Cuban Five
HAVANA, Cuba, April 9 (acn) The Council of the Californian city of Richmond, in the United States, unanimously approved a resolution in support of the five Cuban antiterrorism fighters unjustly incarcerated in that country and the right of their relatives to visit them.
According to information provided by the International Free the Five Committee, the resolution was adopted on Tuesday during a meeting held by the council of that city, located north of San Francisco Bay.
The initiative, which obtained seven votes in favor and none against, was presented by Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and Councilwoman Maria Viramontes.
The text points out that in this case there has been a violation of international agreements and of the due process of law for the performance of a fair trial.
Likewise, the immediate granting of entry visas for Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez to visit their respective husbands, René González y Gerardo Hernández, two of the Cuban Five, is also requested.
Gerardo, René, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero have already served 10 years of their harsh sentences, which range from 15 years to life imprisonment, after being condemned by a Miami court.
Their crime was that of monitoring the activities of anti-Cuban terrorist groups in Florida.
In spite of the lack of diplomatic links between Washington and Havana, residents o0f Richmond (with population of over 100,000, most of them African-Americans and Latinos) have a long history of fraternal relations with Cuba, by way of a project for the twining of Richmond and
the Havana municipality of Regla.
In 2007, Mayor McLaughlin, along with another 12 mayors from California, sent a letter to Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General at the time, which demanded the immediate granting of humanitarian visas to the relatives of the Cuban Five.
The Resolution of Richmond joined the group of 10 Nobel Prize winners, religious and trade union leaders, legal and human rights organizations, artists and parliamentarians who support the petition made by the defence lawyers of the Cuban Five for the US Supreme Court to approve the re- examination of their case.
(Apoyo a Los Cinco en Consejo de ciudad de Richmond, EE.UU.)
According to information provided by the International Free the Five Committee, the resolution was adopted on Tuesday during a meeting held by the council of that city, located north of San Francisco Bay.
The initiative, which obtained seven votes in favor and none against, was presented by Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and Councilwoman Maria Viramontes.
The text points out that in this case there has been a violation of international agreements and of the due process of law for the performance of a fair trial.
Likewise, the immediate granting of entry visas for Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez to visit their respective husbands, René González y Gerardo Hernández, two of the Cuban Five, is also requested.
Gerardo, René, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero have already served 10 years of their harsh sentences, which range from 15 years to life imprisonment, after being condemned by a Miami court.
Their crime was that of monitoring the activities of anti-Cuban terrorist groups in Florida.
In spite of the lack of diplomatic links between Washington and Havana, residents o0f Richmond (with population of over 100,000, most of them African-Americans and Latinos) have a long history of fraternal relations with Cuba, by way of a project for the twining of Richmond and
the Havana municipality of Regla.
In 2007, Mayor McLaughlin, along with another 12 mayors from California, sent a letter to Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General at the time, which demanded the immediate granting of humanitarian visas to the relatives of the Cuban Five.
The Resolution of Richmond joined the group of 10 Nobel Prize winners, religious and trade union leaders, legal and human rights organizations, artists and parliamentarians who support the petition made by the defence lawyers of the Cuban Five for the US Supreme Court to approve the re- examination of their case.
(Apoyo a Los Cinco en Consejo de ciudad de Richmond, EE.UU.)
Pakistan Thanks Cuba for Scholarships
Pakistan’s Higher Education Minister Shehnaz Wazir Ali thanked Cuba for its support for the training of human resources, by way of the granting of 1,000 places for Pakistanis to study medicine free of charge on the archipelago.
During the ceremony to give these scholarships, which will be used by youngsters from remote areas of that nation to study in Cuba, Wazir Ali, who is also a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for the Social Sector, highlighted the great importance of this gesture, which she
described as one of fraternity on the part of Cuba toward her country.
Likewise, she expressed her gratitude for the presence of representatives of the Cuban embassy in the ceremony, which was also attended by the ambassadors of Korea and Austria, as well as by the vice- president of Pakistan’s National Assembly, Faisal Karim Kundi, and top
officials from the provincial government of FATA and Balochistan.
(Agradece Pakistán becas ofrecidas por Cuba)
During the ceremony to give these scholarships, which will be used by youngsters from remote areas of that nation to study in Cuba, Wazir Ali, who is also a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for the Social Sector, highlighted the great importance of this gesture, which she
described as one of fraternity on the part of Cuba toward her country.
Likewise, she expressed her gratitude for the presence of representatives of the Cuban embassy in the ceremony, which was also attended by the ambassadors of Korea and Austria, as well as by the vice- president of Pakistan’s National Assembly, Faisal Karim Kundi, and top
officials from the provincial government of FATA and Balochistan.
(Agradece Pakistán becas ofrecidas por Cuba)
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