EL FUTURO ES HOY

A Peacock Film Production

Synopsis

Life in Havana, suspended in a state of waiting. Seven characters express their complementary yet contradictory ideas about Cuba’s future. Some would like things to carry on as they are, while others hope for change. The characters are all associated with the Malecón, Havana’s sea wall, where the city opens out to the horizon.

Category:                        Mid-lenght film (documentary)

Length:                          35 minutes

Release date:          February 2009

World Premiere:               8th “Muestra de Nuevos Realizadores ICAIC” Havana, Cuba

Crew

Script, Direction, DoP:              Sandra Gómez

Assistant / 2nd Camera:           Adrián Melis

Sound:                                    Albán Henríquez

Editing:                                      Rolando Colla

Sound Design:                       Michael Schwarz, Jingle Jungle

Producer:                                  Elena Pedrazzoli

Music:                                       Silvio Rodríguez “Y nada más” OJALA  S.L.

© Peacock Film 2009

““El futuro es hoy” immerses us in the depths of 21st century Cuban reality. This is the great achievement of the poetic and honest vision of its author, Sandra Gómez.
With the greatest possible objectivity and with the aid of a variety of perspectives, this film deals with the misfortune of many of its protagonists in their inability to determine their own future. Hence the provocative title “The Future is Now”.”
— Enrique Ávila López, Mount Royal University (Calgary, Canada)



FESTIVALS

-         8th Muestra de Nuevos Realizadores (ICAIC) – 2009, Havana, Cuba

-         Festival de Cine Pobre  – 2009, Gibara, Cuba

-         26th Bellaria Film Festival – 2009, Italy

-         Festival Cinesul – 2009, Brasilia, Brazil

-         Euganea Film Festival – 2009, Padova, Italy

-         Festival Internacional de Cine Expresión en Corto – 2009, Guanajuato, Mexico

-         DOCS DF Festival Int. Cine Documental Ciudad de México – 2009, Mexico

-         38e Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montreal – 2009, Canada

-         Doc Lisboa – 2009, Portugal

-         Festival Internacional de Cine Cubano (FICCU) – 2009 Münich, Germany

-         23. Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig – 2009, Germany

-         Filmar en América Latina – 2009, Gèneve, Switzerland

-         Solothurner Filmtage – 2010, Switzerland

-         FIPATEL Market – 2010, Biarritz, France

-         Filmfestival Schaffhausen –  2010, Switzerland

-         TOULOUSE Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine – 2010, France

-         Festival der Nationen, Ebensee – 2010, Austria

-         Brooklyn International Film Festival – 2010, USA

-         Petaluma International Film Festival Tiburon – 2010, CA, USA.

-         2ª Jornada por la Cultura Cubana en Albacete –  2010, Spain

-         Festival International du Film Insulaire Ile de Groix – 2010, France

-         Sardinia Film Festival – 2011, Italy

-         5th Espaces Latinos Lyon – 2011, France

-         Yamagata Int. Documentary Film Festival – 2011, Japan

-         Clermont-Ferrand, Programa Especial «Hoy Cuba» – 2012, Francia

-         Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art «Politically, about Cuba» – 2013, Gdansk, Poland

AWARDS

@ Muestra de Nuevos Realizadores (ICAIC) – 2009, Havana, Cuba

·        SIGNIS Catholic Association for Communication Award

@ Euganea Film Festival Padova – 2009, Italy

·        Award for Best International Documentary

@ DOCSDF Cine Documental de Ciudad de Mexico – 2009, Mexico

·        Best Short documentary film

@ 38th Festival of Nations, Ebensee – 2010, Austria

·        Diploma of the Jury “Ebensee Bear in Bronze”

TV-SALES

-         CANAL EXTREMADURA TV, Spain

-         Al Jazzera TV International, England