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Camilo Vives
Camilo Vives (c. 1942 – March 14, 2013) was a Cuban film producer. He produced more than forty Cinema of Cuba, Cuban films during his career, including ''Lucía'', released in 1968, and ''Fresa y Chocolate'' (''Strawberry and Chocolate'') in 1994. Vives joined the Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), the state-controlled film arm of the Cuban government, which had been established in 1959 following the Cuban Revolution. He became head of the ICAIC's production studios during the 1970s. In 2001, he was promoted to head of the International Production division of the ICAIC. Vives produced films by Cuban and Spain, Spanish film directors. His credits with Cuban directors included ''Lucía'', ''Miel para Oshun'' and ''Barrio Cuba'' for director Humberto Solás; and ''Life is to Whistle'' in 1998 and ''Suite Habana'' in 2003 for director ''Fernando Pérez (director), Fernando Pérez''. Vives frequently collaborated with Cuban director the late Cuban fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |