Students from several countries to graduate from Cuba EICTV

Photo: Internet.Photo: Internet. Students of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) located in Cuba will begin to present their works to graduate in different specialties: Direction, Screenplay, Editing, Documentary, Production, Sound, Photography, Television and New Media.

A total of 43 students are set to culminate the course 2016-2017. According to the institution, they come from Venezuela, Spain, Brazil, Panama, Denmark, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Italy, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Colombia, Honduras and Cuba.

The thesis evaluation committee is made up of relevant personalities and audiovisual professionals, including Hernán Musaluppi and Paula Markovich (Argentina); Matías Bize and Julio César Rojas (Chile); Jacques Comets, Jean Perret and Damien Sueur (France).

The graduation of the 25th generation of the EICTV, located in San Antonio de Los Baños, western province of Artemisa, is scheduled to take place on July 22. The event will close a cycle of commemoration for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the academic center.

The entity, attached to the Foundation of the New Latin American Cinema, plans to project their works at the Chaplin Cinema, in Havana. Among the founders of the School are the Colombian writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez, Argentine poet and filmmaker Fernando Birri, and Cuban filmmaker and theoretician Julio García Espinosa.