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
Mit einem jungen neuen Team unter der Leitung von Joanna Szymańska-Szcześniak und dem Programmdirektor Bartłomiej Pulcyn startete das Warschauer Filmfestival bei seiner 41. Ausgabe in gleich acht verschiedenen Spielstätten., so Holger Twele, Miglied der Ökumenischen Jury in Warschau 2025, in seinem Bericht.
Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2