Red Emma’s

Tonight, renowned Cuban actress Laura de la Uz will screen and discuss her film La Película de Ana (Ana's Film)! Directed by Daniel Diaz Torres, La Película de Ana was chosen as the best feature film in 2012 by the Cuban Association of Cinema Press, and was received enthusiastically by Cuban audiences across the island. In the title role, Laura de la Uz portrays the life of an actress lurching between one mediocre role and another, between bad adventures for teenagers and worse soap operas for housewives. Spurred on by material problems, and especially by an urge to buy a refrigerator, she decides to pass herself off as a prostitute for a documentary being produced by some Austrians. What could have been one more role, a sequence of stereotypes and exaggerations, becomes Ana's best performance. The film reflects on questions of identity at a time when Cuba is, again, reimagining itself in relation to those who come to the island in search of a stereotypical image that fulfills their expectations. The film delves into other core social issues such as family, personal and professional fulfillment, economic and material shortages, but above all the dignity of being human and the will to confront the difficulties. Laura de la Uz (February 14th, 1970) Laura de la Uz was born in Havana in 1970. She studied at the School for Theater Instructors (Escuela Internacional de Instructores de Teatro, ENIT) where she graduated in 1992 with a degree in acting, direction and pedagogy.  Her performance as Ana, in the film La película de Ana, directed by the late Daniel Díaz Torres, received several awards around the world, including best actress at the Latin American Film Festival in Havana and the New York Film Critics award. She has also worked on theater with Teatro de la Luna, whose director, Raúl Martín, is considered one of the most groundbreaking theater directors in Cuba nowadays. In 2006, as member of Teatro de la Luna, she performed the role of “La reina” on Alberto Pedro’s play Delirio Habanero, one of the most successful productions in Cuban theater on the 21st Century. In 2001 she directed the play Mentita´s bar with the theater company La sombra, from Santiago de Chile.