About Santiago Álvarez
Biography
Santiago Álvarez Román (March 8, 1919 – May 20, 1998) was a Cuban documentary filmmaker and a central figure in revolutionary Latin American cinema. After studying in the United States, he returned to Cuba in the mid-1940s, where he worked as a music archivist for television and became active in Communist Party circles. Following the…
Filmography10 films
- El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución2013
- Memória Cubana2010
- Rocha Que Voa2002
- Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez1999
- Coarse Salt1984
- Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema1984
- El milagro de la tierra morena1974
- Entrevista al presidente Salvador Allende (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano)1970
- Towards Unity and Victory1937
- Los Ojos de SantiagoTBA







