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Cuban film industry waits for next revolution


March 20, 2008 The Hollywood duo had come to inform Garcia Espinosa -- then head of ICAIC, the Cuban Film Institute -- that the organization had been sanctioned as the official sponsor of Cuban entries in the Academy's foreign-film category. Today, the International School of Film and Television houses 117 full-time students, gleaned from throughout Latin America and a total of 50 countries over the ensuing 22 years. "For a poor country like ours, to think about establishing a film school was a great proof of our love of cinema," Garcia Espinosa told a reporter recently.

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