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YAHILY HERNANDEZ PORTO interviews film historian Garcia Yero and prize-winning author Luis Alvarez Alvarez about the extraordinary achievement of Sara Gomez, the rediscovered star of revolutionary Cuban cinema
REVOLUTIONARY: (L to R) De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) and Sara Gomez
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SARA GOMEZ, a native of Guanabaco, died suddenly from an asthma attack on June 2 1974 but she had already made an extraordinary contribution to the seething Cuban art scene of the first decades of the Revolution.
“She was,” says Olga Garcia Yero, “one of the most dazzling figures in Cuban culture: the first fiction and documentary filmmaker who, when she died suddenly at only 32 years of age, was already recognised as one of Cuba’s most outstanding female creators.”
Who was she?
“Sara Gomez had an exceptional culture,” says Yero, “which stemmed from her own life and the complexity of the ’50s and ’60s she lived through.
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