Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome Tania Delgado Fernandez from Cuba to participate in events at this year’s Screen Cuba film festival.

Tania began her career in copyright law and went on to work in the film industry in production and international distribution at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, ICAIC, and also within ICAIC’s own animation studios. She became linked to the film industry sector within Havana’s International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (FINCL). In 2018, she was approached to participate in the process of changing the legislation for independent producers. She then worked as a Vice President for ICAIC for five years, overseeing the production processes for independent films and managing foreign relationships. From 2023 she became the director of the Havana film festival (FINCL) which is held in Havana every December.

Established in 1979 by Cuban filmmaker and intellectual Alfredo Guevara, FINCL emerged in response to the growing recognition of the need to represent and elevate Latin American cinema, which had long been overlooked on the global stage.

As the first woman to hold the esteemed position of director, Tania stresses the Festival is “one of the most outstanding events … not only in Latin America, but for all Ibero-American cinema in general,” one “that is a benchmark for cinema in the region”.