Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás (14 January 1941 - date|2008-09-17 [ [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sp/fea/6009246.html chron.com] ] [ [http://www.elpais.com.uy/08/09/18/ultmo_370564.asp El País HoustonChronicle.com en Español] elpais.com] ) was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film "Lucía" (1968), which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history. cite news |first=|last=|title=Cuban Moviemaker Humberto Solas Dies at 66 |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/cuban-moviemaker-humberto-solas-dies-at-66/86164/|work=New York Sun|publisher=|date=2008-09-19 |accessdate=2008-09-24] His cinematic style borrows from Luchino Visconti's spectacular mise en scene and is permeated by sometimes heavy melodrama. He started making shorts at a very young age, before directing his first medium length film "Manuela", in 1966. The success of this film led him to direct "Lucía", an ambitious period piece told in three stories in different moments of Cuban history, all as seen through the eyes of a different woman, each named Lucia. He later directed many different projects with a degree of success, but he never matched again the international acclaim of his first feature.

Solás has won 13 awards for filmmaking and been nominated for an additional 9. He has twice served on the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 1977 and 1997. In 2003, he founded Gibara's Poor Cinema Festival, "open to filmmakers with limited funds". [ [http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={2529014B-CB9F-4C6E-B05C-790B5E8A3865})&language=EN "Cuba Filmmaker Humberto Solas Dies"] , Prensa Latina, September 18, 2008] Solás was awarded Cuba's National Film Prize in 2005.

Humberto Solás died of cancer on September 17, 2008, at the age of 66.

Filmography

Solás directed twenty-four films, from "La Huida" in 1959 to "Barrio Cuba" and "Adela" in 2005, wrote twelve and produced one. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813695/ Filmography] on IMDB] The following is an incomplete filmography:
*1958: "La Huida"
*1966: "Manuela"
*1968: "Lucía"
*1972: "Un dia de noviembre"
*1975: "Cantata de Chile"
*1981: "Cecilia"
*1986: "Un hombre de exito"
*1991: "El siglo de las Luces"
*2001: "Miel para Oshun"
*2005: "Barrio Cuba"
*2005: "Adela"

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