Crossing National Borders and Nontheatrical Boundaries: The Film Work of Rosina Prado

This article contributes to recovering the lost history of Rosina Prado's work. Prado was a Spanish-Soviet filmmaker who, along with Sara Gómez, was one of the first women to direct films in Cuba, where she worked for the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) between 1961 and 1968. Drawing on feminist forms of archival and historical research, as well as in-depth personal interviews with Rosina Prado's relatives and collaborators, we explore Prado's condition as a migrant mother and antifascist exiled woman filmmaker in Cuba. We also probe the uncertainties surrounding Rosina Prado's films and their circulation in postrevolutionary Cuba and more recently, in times of digital technological transition. Finally, we consider how these factors have contributed to Rosina Prado's erasure from film history, leaving her as a little-known filmmaker whose documentaries remain virtually unseen.

rosina prado; cuban cinema; women's cinema; postrevolutionary cuba; nontheatrical media; feminist film historiography; cine cubano

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