Humberto Solás
Humberto Solás ( born December 4, 1941 in Havana, † September 17, 2008 ) was a Cuban film director.
Life
In 2003 he initiated the Festival del Cine Pobre ( " Festival of the poor cinema" ) in the small town of Gibara. This was to draw attention to the negative effects of globalization.
In April 2003 Solás belonged to a group of prominent Cuban cultural workers who signed one in the newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma published open letter, which was sent to friends of Cuba in the world and international criticism of the human rights policy of the Cuban government as anti-Cuban campaign of vilification rejected: in the weeks before President Fidel Castro had in a known as the " black spring" crackdown 75 critical journalists and civil rights activists sentenced to long prison terms in summary proceedings and leave three young black Cubans after the bloodless failed attempt of a ship hijacking also executed after summary trials.