Havana From on High
A FILM BY PEDRO RUIZ
Documentary — Quebec — 2019 — 80 min
Color | Spanish with French and English subtitles | 16:9 | Stereo
SYNOPSIS
The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformation.
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CAST
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Jean Fugère
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Roberto Vargas Calzado
CREW
- Direction and screenplay: Pedro Ruiz
- Production: Arantza Maldonado (Faits Divers Média)
- Direction of photography : Pedro Ruiz
- Editing : Pedro Ruiz
- Sound design : René Portillo Ruiz
- Sound mix : René Portillo Ruiz
- Sound recording : René Portillo Ruiz
- Distribution: Kfilms Amérique
- Rendez-vous Quebec Cinema, 2019
- Festival internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (FICG), 2019
- HotDocs, 2019
- Festival internacional de Cine Cartagena de Indias (FICCI), 2019
- American Documentary Film Festival, 2019
- Chicago Latino Film Festival, 2019
- Canadian Screen Awards, 2020 *Best Cinematography for feature documentary
- Iris Awards, 2020 *Best cinematography, Best Sound – Documentary