Santiago Álvarez
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-03-18 (79 years old)
Deathday
1998-05-20
Place of Birth
Havana, Cuba
Also known As
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Santiago Álvarez
Biography
He studied in the United States but in the mid-1940s returned to Cuba, where he worked as a music archivist in a television station and participated in Communist Party activities.[1] After the Cuban Revolution he became a founding member of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) and directed its weekly Latin American Newsreel.[2] One of his most famous works, the short Now (1964) about racial discrimination in the US, mixed news photographs and musical clips featuring singer/actress Lena Horne. Other well-known works included the anti-imperialist satire LBJ (1968) and 79 Springs (1969), a poetic tribute to Ho Chi Minh. In 1968, he collaborated wit...
Acting
2010
as Self (archive footage)
1984
as Horacio
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as Santiago Alvarez
2002
as Self (voice)
Production
1975
as Director
1975
as Writer
1969
as Director
1965
as Director
1969
as Director
1968
as Director
1977
as Director
1967
as Director
1962
as Editor
1970
as Director
1967
as Director
1973
1973
as Director
1973
as Writer
1966
as Director
1972
as Director
1970
as Director
1964
as Director
1971
1975
as Director
1980
as Director
1969
1968
as Director
1970
as Screenplay
1960
as Director
1960
as Script
1962
as Director
1977
as Writer
1969
as Writer
1969
as Director
1969
as Writer
1959
as Producer
1960
as Production Manager
1969
as Writer
1971
as Director
1973
as Director
1976
as Director
1974
as Director
1973
as Director
1966
as Director
1987
as Director
1987
as Writer
1962
as Director
1962
as Producer
1962
as Writer
1965
as Director
1965
as Writer
1966
as Director
1966
as Writer
1976
as Director
1976
as Writer
1976
as Director
1976
as Writer
1977
as Director
1977
as Writer
1983
as Director
1983
as Writer
1989
as Director
1989
as Writer
2019
as Sound
1974
as Director
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