Santiago AlvarezNationality:
Cuban Birthdate:
03/18/1919 Birthplace:
Havana, Cuba Death Date:
05/20/1998 Celeb News
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biography
As a young man, Santiago Alvarez studied in the USA and worked there at menial jobs. After his return to Cuba in the mid-1940s, he worked as a music archivist in a TV station and participated in the activities of the Cuban communist party and "Nuestro Tiempo," a political-cultural society.With no formal training as a filmmaker, Alvarez made his first documentaries at the age of 40, in the wake of the Revolution. He was a founding member of ICAIC, the Cuban film institute established in 1959.Though he has directed one fiction feature and headed ICAIC's Latin American Newsreel division,
Credits
milestones
Year
Milestone
1933
Radio broadcaster
1934
Left high school (date approximate)
1942
Returned to Cuba after speending several years studying in the USA; joined Communist party (date approximate)
Co-founded Nuestro Tiempo ;film society in Havana in the 1950s
1959
Co-founded (with Tomas Gutierrez Alea) and made newsreel department head of the Instituto Cubano del Arte y Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC)
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