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Filmmaker · Cuba

Santiago Álvarez

Died in 1998

Santiago Álvarez was born on 8 March 1919. After studies in the United States, he was a television music archivist and was active in the Communist Party. A founding member of the Cuban film institute, he directed its weekly newsreel and invented a “nervous editing” made of found materials, in Now and Hanoi, martes 13. He made more than a dozen trips to Vietnam at war with the cameraman Iván Nápoles and died in Havana on 20 May 1998.

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