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Los Frikis had its world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival in April 2024, where it received a standing ovation and was awarded the Marimbas award. [6] In October 2024, Wayward/Range acquired distribution rights to the film and set it for a December 25, 2024, release. [ 13 ]
Updated December 19, 2024 at 9:57 AM. ... In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the early years of the AIDS epidemic ...
The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Latin American filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, and in English as International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana. [ 1 ]
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [12] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings, is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence ...
First Chair of the Organizing Committee: Marcia Leiseca The event was established in 1984. This edition exhibited artists only from Latin America and the Caribbean. [2] It was attended by 800 artists from 22 countries, with the collaboration of numerous historians and critics from almost the entire continent of Latin América.
Approximately 8,000 people attended the 2001 HFFNY, according to the festival's co-director and programmer Pedro Zurita, in a 2002 New York Times interview. [2] The third HFFNY ran April 18–27, 2002 at venues in Manhattan, Queens, and The Bronx. Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás was the honoree, and the festival opened with his film Honey for ...
Los Frikis or the Frikis is a Cuban punk subculture that originated in the 1980s. [1] As Cuban radio stations rarely played rock music , Frikis often listened to music by picking up radio frequencies from stations in nearby Florida . [ 2 ]
Calle Ocho festival in 2001. Little Havana hosts its annual Calle Ocho street festival (part of the overall Carnaval Miami celebration), one of the largest in the world, with over one million visitors attending Calle Ocho alone. It is a free street festival with a Caribbean carnival feel sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana.