Active in OCIC/SIGNIS since the mid sixties Gustavo was elected president of SIGNIS-Cuba in 1994. SIGNIS Cuba is active in several lines of work: publications, video productions, cineclubs (film review clubs), participation in national and regional film and video festivals and a variety of education and training activities. In 2009 Gustavo was elected SIGNIS-World Vice President for a second term of office. He is the founder and director of the SIGNIS-Cuba magazine ECOS devoted to audio-visual media and a member of the media commission for the Cuban Catholic Bishop Conference. Gustavo is also an executive producer for documentaries and an accomplished Film and media critic. who has been a member of several SIGNIS juries at international, regional (Latin America) and national levels like Zanzibar, 2010/ Fest Dom.Rep., 2010, Washington 2011, Divercine 2012 and Venice 2012. In 2014, he was elected President of SIGNIS-World.
President of SIGNIS
Country of origin
Cuba
Festivals
Festivals
Current issues
The quality of the films in competition in TIFF24, the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cuj-Napoca, was outstanding and impressed the ecumenical jury. The festival focusses on debuts of filmmakers or second films.
Marie Starck, complemented by Dietmar Adler, reports about a symposium at Judson Memorial Church, New York, which was supported by INTERFILM
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2