CUBAN FILM SCHOOL RETROSPECTIVE

THE MARTIAN INVASION

(LE INVASOR DE MARTES)

Brasil, 1988, 25 min.

Director: Wolney Oliveira
Script: Wolney Oliveira
Producer: David Grijalva, Wolney Oliveira
Cinematography: Gustavo Velázquez, Juan Carlos Cremata
Editing: Juan Carlos Cremata
Sound: José Passe
Production company: The International School of Film and TV (EICTV)


The Martian Invasion

In 1953 a young Cuban boy wrote to Samual Goldwyn of MGM asking for work in the MGM strudio, (despite his missing tooth). Now a doctor, he and other friends of his youth look back on how they turned rejection by Hollywood into a stimulus to write, produce and direct their own films throughout the fiftiers and early sixties. Mainly silent, black and white and shot on 8mm, the films come to life again as the one-time challengers to Hollywood (who went on to be a butcher, an electrician, a grocer etc) reflect on their glorious cinematic lives which once drew cheering local crowds to the town´s cinema. Their movement spirit was revived by the establishment of the EICTV nearby in 1986.

Wolney Oliveira was born in Fortaleza, Brazil in 1960. Filmmaker and Festival Cine Ceara Director. His films include: Milagre em Juazeiro (1991), Os Velhos Marinheiros, Borracha para Vitoria.

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