Sara Gómez

Sara Gómez was born on 8 November 1942 in Guanabacoa, near Havana, and grew up with her grandmother and four aunts. She studied piano, literature and Afro-Cuban ethnography, wrote for the magazine Mella and the newspaper Noticias de Hoy, then became at the Cuban film institute the assistant of Jorge Fraga, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Agnès Varda. The first woman to direct there, one of only two Black filmmakers of her early years, she made a series of documentaries, from Plaza Vieja in 1962 to Iré a Santiago and ...Y tenemos sabor. She died in Havana on 2 June 1974.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmOne Way or AnotherDe cierta maneraSara Gómez · 1977Cinema