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Nueva Gerona, June 3.- Isla Verde, the Caribbean International Film and Environment Festival, chaired by the renowned Cuban actor and filmmaker Jorge Perugorría, is the necessary space that in Cuba sensitizes action in favor of the planet.
With the purpose of making visible, discussing and acting, from May 31 to June 5, Isla de la Juventud hosts this foundational event, which, as it is not competitive, promotes audiovisual works of high aesthetic value and in defense of nature, contributed by the Good Planet Foundation, Cinema Planeta and the international association Green Film Network.
On this Friday, Mirta Ibarra –screenwriter, playwright and Cuban theater, film and television actress– presented at the Caribe cinema in Nueva Gerona Dans la nature (In nature) and Comiendo nuestro camino a la extinción (Eating our way to extinction), both 2021 productions, recently awarded by the Green Film Network, which brings together 35 festivals from 32 countries.
The Swiss short film In nature, by director Marcel Barelli, argues that homosexuality is not exclusive to humans, while Eating our way to extinction, by British brothers Otto and Ludo Brockway, warns about the unsustainable raising of cattle for meat and consequently the ecological collapse that this would entail.
For her part, Eleonora Insunza –from the aforementioned international association– spoke about El mar incendiado and Nahui Ollin, sol de movimiento (among whose directors she figures), works that from a critical and scientific perspective talk about the drama that climate change entails for residents in vulnerable communities and their resilience in response.
Among the dozen films on display, thanks to the Green Film Network and the Good Planet Foundation, organizations that have cooperated in the birth of Isla Verde, this Friday there was once a forest, an exquisitely crafted documentary, an ode to the tropical forest (specifically from the Manu park in Peru and the Congo river basin in Gabon) in the face of the anguish caused by the depredation caused by human beings.
The documentary film served to dismiss in the audience – made up of students and professors from the Martha Machado Pedagogical School and the América Labadí Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences – the anthropocentric vision of the environment and to appreciate the harmonious and balanced relationship of people with the nature.
With a children's party, dedicated to the collection of raw materials, the fourth day of Isla Verde, International Film and Environment Festival, will begin, the first of its kind in the Caribbean, with permanent headquarters in the special Cuban municipality of Isla de la Youth. (Text and photos: ACN)
