Film Screening and Q & A with Jennifer Ruth Hosek
The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies is please to present two screening of the film, Rodando en La Habana: bicycle stories.
When: Wednesday, October 12, 4-5pm
Where: UBCO Campus, Reichwald Health and Science Centre, RHS 260. (This screening is presented as part of FILM 100 with Denise Kenney.)
When: Wednesday, October 12, 7pm
Where: Okanagan College Theatre. (This screening is presented as part of the Hispanic Cinema Retrospective 2016: Viva Cuba supported by OC and FCCS)
Rodando en La Habana: bicycle stories (30 min) Spanish with English subtitles, Santos and Hosek) is a tale of bicycling and community in Havana today, 20 years after the hardest time of the Special Period, when over one-million Chinese bicycles were imported to aid survival on an island suddenly without Soviet petroleum.
This collaborative documentary premiered at the 2015 Festival of New Latin American Cinema, is screening at venues including Cine Pobre and the International Bicycle Film Festival, and will be broadcast on Telesur TV.
Jennifer Hosek
Filmmaker and scholar Jennifer Ruth Hosel is an Assocaite Professor of German Studies and affiliated with Film and MEdia and Cultural STudies at Queen’s University. Her work includes Sun, Sex and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary (U Toronto, 2012). Current projects include a monograph on urban movement and cinema and the eTandem exchange LinguaeLive.ca