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GUEST:
ELIECER JIMÉNEZ

HOST:
ANAELI IBARRA


Synopsis:

Conversation with Elicer Jiménez, journalist, filmmaker and professor. Eliecer recounts the successive attacks he experienced during his time as a student at the University of Camagüey. When he questioned the signing without his consent of an official document condemning Posada Carriles as an act of university protest, Eliecer became a target of the academic authorities and Cuban counterintelligence. From then on, he would experience harassment, threats, arbitrary suspensions, public ridicule and the silence of his classmates. Elicer never stopped in the face of what he considered an injustice, he opened legal proceedings against the university and went to the Prosecutor's Office on several occasions to demand the arbitrary actions of the officials. Eliecer was subjected to a lot of pressure, including "surprise" visits from the counterintelligence agent who "attended" to him. For years, he lived resisting the stigmatization of power, even when they banned him from public events or refused to greet him.

Bio:

Elicer Jimenez: Cuban filmmaker and video artist. In 2008 he founded ikaik films, a project dedicated to the development of low-budget experimental cinema. His feature-length documentary Veritas (2021) premiered at the 39 Miami Film Festival and received a Recognition of Artistic Merit from the City of Miami (USA-2022). Persona (2014) was exhibited at Documentary 15 (Germany-2022) and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) (USA-2019). Jiménez Almeida has been invited as a visiting filmmaker to Yale University, Columbia University, New York University (NYU), the City University of New York (CUNY), the University of Miami (UM) and Florida International University (FIU). Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, China, India, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, El Salvador and Guatemala. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Florida International University (USA-2022), studied documentary filmmaking at EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños and was part of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (USA-2016). She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages at FIU, where she researches the cinema of the Cuban diaspora. All of her films have been produced outside the industry.

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