Memories of Overdevelopment is a 2010 Cuban film. Written and directed by Miguel Coyula

Miguel Coyula

Miguel Coyula Aquino is a Cuban filmmaker. At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba...

, the story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes

Edmundo Desnoes

Edmundo Desnoes , is a renowned Cuban writer, author of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo , a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution. He originally called the work Inconsolable Memories in the first English edition...

, also the author of the 1968 classic Memories of Underdevelopment. The film was produced by David Leitner and features Cuban actor, Ron Blair as the lead character. It is the first Cuban dramatic feature film with scenes filmed both in Cuba and the United States.

Story

Sergio Garcet is an intellectual who abandons the Cuban Revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of an alienated man, an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology: A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately, the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society.

Highly episodical, the film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.

Honors

• Best Cuban Film of 2010 by the International Film Guide.
• Second Best Cuban Film of 2010 by the Cuban Association of Cinema Press.
• Best Film of 2010 by Cinema Without Borders

Awards

• Best Director of Latinamerican Section, Málaga Film Festival, Spain 2011
• Cine Latino Award, Washington DC Independent Film Festival, USA 2011
• Special Jury Award, Encuentro Nacional de Video, Cuba, 2011
• Special Jury Award, El Almacén de la Imagen, Cuba, 2011
• FIPRESCI Award, Caracol Awards, Cuba, 2011
• Mention, Caracol Awards, Cuba, 2011
• UNEAC Award, Encuentro Nacional de Video, Cuba, 2011
• Best Film, Havan New Directors Film Festival, Cuba, 2011
• Best Original Music, Havana New Filmmakers Film Festival, Cuba, 2011
• FIPRESCI Award, Havana New Filmmakers Film Festival, Cuba, 2011
• SIGNIS Award, Havana New Filmmakers Film Festival, Cuba, 2011
• Editora Musical Award, Havana New Filmmakers Film Festival, Cuba, 2011
• Special Award, ACE Awards, USA, 2011
• Most Innovative, Cero Latitud Film Festival, Ecuador, 2010
• Best Narrative Feature, Dallas Video Fest, USA, 2010
• Best Feature, New Media Film Festival, USA 2010
• Special Mention, Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, USA, 2010
• Best Film, Havana Film Festival New York, USA, 2010

External links

• "Best Cuban Films of 2010" . International Film Guide. Abu Dhabi Film Commission.
• Greenberg, James (14 October 2010) "Memories of Overdevelopmen—Film Review", The Hollywood Reporter
  The Hollywood Reporter
  Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
  
  - review
• Menken, Robin (23 January 2011) "Best Film of 2010, according to CWB's critic, Robin Menken" Cinema Without Borders - review
• Reynaud, Bérénice (11 July 2010) "The Image and its Discontent". Senses of Cinema
  Senses of Cinema
  Senses of Cinema is a quarterly online film magazine founded in 1999 by filmmaker Bill Mousoulis. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Senses of Cinema publishes work by film critics from all over the world, including critical essays, career overviews of the works of key directors, and coverage of many...
  
  , Issue 55. - review