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José Arroyo has just returned from a two week stint at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, recently voted in the top five filmmaking schools to watch by The Hollywood Reporter. The school was founded in 1986 by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Argentine poet Fernando Birri and the Cuban producer Julio García Espinosa with the support of then-President Fidel Castro in order to provide as close to an ideal context for students from the ‘Three Worlds’ of Africa, Asia and Latin America to study filmmaking. The three founders dreamed up an ingenious system of workshop-based teaching where directors, sound men, cinematographers, critics, academics and just about anyone involved with any aspect of film culture arrive for a two week period, teach what they know, and then the same mini-bus that returns them to the airport brings in a new set of skilled people willing to share their knowledge. It’s a very effective system and one available now to students from ‘Todos los mundos’/ All the worlds.’ Arroyo was honoured to have been invited to lecture on The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch’ and on ‘The Musical’.

Below are some photographs taken by José during his visit: