Sara Gómez

Sara Gomez Yera ( born November 8, 1943 in Havana, † June 2, 1974 in Havana ) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter.

Life

Gómez studied piano at the Conservatory six years in Havana and worked as a journalist for the youth magazine Mella and the Sunday supplement of the newspaper Hoy of the Communist Party. From 1961 she was a staff of the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, the newly established national film institute. She was assistant director to Roberto Fandiño ( Tiempo de Pioneros, 1962), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ( Cumbite, 1964), Jorge Fraga (El robo, 1965) and Agnès Varda ( Salut les Cubains, 1963). In 1962, she turned to Plaza Vieja her first short film. Her first important work was the 1974 documentary feature film De manera cierta be. The film, she could not finish, she died in the same year from an acute asthma attack. The film was completed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea therefore.

Sara Gómez was one of the few (colored) women who have a movie realized in Cuba of the 20th century: De manera cierta 1974 forms a critical- emancipatory work. The film mixes documentary and fiction and examines the social changes of the society in the post-revolutionary Cuba.

Filmography

Source

• Schumann, Peter B. (1980 ): cinema in Cuba from 1959 to 1979. Vervuert, Frankfurt, 1980