Cuba

Cuban filmmaker, Rigoberto López, has directed many documentaries, shorts and feature films. His numerous works have been very successful both to the public and critics, in Cuba as well as abroad and have garnered important national and international prizes. He has participated in numerous conferences, workshops and seminars around the world on cinema in general and on Cuban cinema in particular. Rigoberto López has been a member of the juries of many national and international festivals and has represented Cuban cinema at numerous events. He graduated in politics from Havana University, and has worked in the cinema sector of the Cuban television. He joined the Cuban Institute for Art and the Film Industry (ICAIC) as assistant director in 1971. Rigoberto Lopez passed away in January 2019 in La Habana leaving behind a long list of well-known documentaries and the Traveling Caribbean Film Showcase, which he founded and was head of since 2006.

Filmography

De una vieja Habana (1968)
El Arroz (1969)
El Puerto: Toma I (1970)
Crímenes de guerra (1975)
Notes for the History of the Cuban Workers’ Movement (1975)
The Spear of the Nation (1977)
The First Intervention (1977)
El Eslabón más fuerte (1980)
Junto al golfo (1980)
Este cine nuestro (1980)
Semillas de hombres (1982)
Las Visitaciones de José Luciano (1982)
Granada, A Dream Takes Off (1983)
Pero no olvides (1984)
Roja es la tierra (1985)
África: Círculo del infierno (1985)
Los Hijos de Namibia (1987)
Breve carta de Namibia (1987)
El Viaje más largo (1987)
Esta es mi alma (1988)
La Primavera prohibida (1988)
Mensajero de los Dioses (1989)
Del Caribe al Mediterráneo (1990)
La Soledad de la jefa de despacho (1990)
Pedacito de cielo (1993)
Yo soy del son a la salsa (1996)
Potoprens se pa’m / Puerto Príncipe mío (2000)
Roble de olor / Scent of Oak (2003)
Danny Glover / Hacer Arte, Hacer Justicia (2004)
Figueroa (2007)
Forbidden Flights (2015)