Low-Budget Film Festival Blessed with Concert by Kelvis Ochoa

Text and photos: Amauris Betancourt.
Translation: Juan Carlos Dominguez Taño.

The popular Cuban musician Kelvis Ochoa played at the opening concert of the 8th Humberto Solas International Low-Budget Film Festival, held at the Da Silva Plaza in the city of Gibara. Prior to the concert, the traditional mass parade of participants and the people in Gibara took place in the also nicknamed “White Village of the Crabs.”

The Festival has also scheduled theoretical forums, professional meetings, plastic arts exhibitions, and the presentation of movie-works contending for the prizes as well as many other attractions such as the gathering with Nelson Rodriguez, whom the current Festival edition is devoted to. Elia Solas, Sergio Benvenuto Solas and journalist Joel del Rio are invited to the gathering.

The Da Silva Plaza will also welcome - starting this Tuesday night – the presentation of the works brought by the International Festival of the Childhood and the Youth of Madrid, Spain, due to the fact this year’s event in Gibara is dedicated to the youngest generations.

And right in that same square, singer M Alfonso will perform, as a way tom make music travel to several other places of the coastal city that bewitched Humberto Solas where he shot some of his best films.