Opening Parade of Gibara’s Non-Budget Film Festival (Versión en español)

By Amauris Betancourt.
amauris@radioangulo.icrt.cu

The Cuban flag held by Bolivian students headed the Parade.

Gibara –a small, beatiful, sea city north of north-eastern province Holguin, 800 km from Havanna- houses every year the Non-Budget Film Festival. Held this current year from April 15 to 21, for the seventh time, it broke out with a crowded parade, where people and artists mixed throughout Independence street till the city’s central park, topped by a concert by Raul Paz.

Humberto Solas, the Festival’s director, welcomed participants and invitees. He also recalled the Festival’s engagement to foster low or non-budget film related productions taking into account a due aesthetic level.

The closing day was rewarded with a crowded concert by the Cuban acclaimed songwriter Carklos Varela.

Cuban film-makers paraded too.
Puppet Theater from Holguin.
Gibara’s dweller, candles in hand, flanked the parading street.
Solas, the Festival’s director, during inaugurating Speech. Fireworks during opening ceremony.
Raúl Paz in the inaugurating concert.