Jerónimo Labrada Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Jerónimo Labrada
Sound
Biography
Jerónimo Labrada (born April 17, 1946 in Holguín, Cuba) is a sound engineer. In 1968, he began working as a sound recordist at ICAIC, after graduating from the Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Electrónica. Between 1969 and 1973, he recorded most of the work of the ICAIC's Grupo de Experimentación Sonora, and albums by composers Pablo Milanés, Silvio Rodríguez, Leo Brouwer, Sergio Vitier, Frank Fernández, Sara González, Isabel Parra, Holly Near, among others. From 1975 to 1985, he was Head of the Recording Section of the ICAIC Sound Department. Since 1986, he has been part of the team that designs the teaching program at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), where he began as a founding professor of the Sound Department. He also participated in the establishment of the Facultad Arte de los Medios de Comunicación Audiovisual (FAMCA), where he is an Associate Professor. In 1990, he represented EICTV in the creation of FEISAL (Federación de Escuelas de la Imagen y el Sonido de América Latina) in Mexico; since 1992, he has been a member of its Advisory Council, based in São Paulo.
Filmography Movies
Acting
BirriLata, Around by Train
Few people in Argentine and Latin American cinema have been as close as Fernando Birri to stand as a patriarch, pioneer, and spokesman for a committed cinema that tears itself apart in its solidarity with its own surroundings. This ode to the tireless Birri presents him to us in full: teaching, establishing standards, and creating with the tools of his time, turning culture into a form of political affirmation as he grows more and more vital and rooted.
In the Heat of the Cold Years
In Havana in the nineteen sixties, there were 140 movie theaters. Only a dozen remain today. For ten years, the cinema industry was a pillar of the Cuban Revolution, but the regime’s hardening and the economic recession precipitated its decline. Fifty years later, only a dozen movie theaters are still running in Havana, while a new generation of bold filmmakers struggles for the very existence of Cuban cinema. In the Heat of the Cold Years tells the story of Revolutionary Cuban cinema through the memories of a choral of elder filmmakers, such as Luciano Castillo, the director of the national film archives, as he scrambles for the preservation of this crumbling cultural legacy, and through a group of young Cuban filmmakers struggling to make their first feature film.
Memória Cubana
Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.
Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening
A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti.
Production
My Brother, Fidel
Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to realize who his illustrious interviewer actually is.
The First Delegate
The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí announced the foundations and statutes of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, the tireless struggle that the hero sustained throughout his life to obtain independence, his gifts as a political organizer, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, all narrated live by an announcer who entertains with his reading the work of the cigar makers in a tobacco factory, until the documentary reaches its final climax: the symbolic reconversion of the old Marti's party into a new one.
Sulkari
A Cuban dance short, choreographed by Eduardo Rivero.
Las carpetas
How fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their “files”, the records obtained of the illegal surveillance and persecution that the Puerto Rican government held against citizens and organizations that disagreed with the establishment. Through their daily life, they will tell us their stories, experiences and intimate feelings of the persecution they suffered. Taking their past as an example, we will confront the present.
Take-Off at 18:00 Hours
This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.
Molina's Test
A young Cuban couple gets lost, and searching for a place to stay the night, enters the home of M. Wong and Madame Tsu, who have sinister plans for them.
Molina's Test
A young Cuban couple gets lost, and searching for a place to stay the night, enters the home of M. Wong and Madame Tsu, who have sinister plans for them.
Jonah and the Pink Whale
A schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister—despite the risk of having to confront not only his wife, but also his dubious father-in-law.
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