Oneyda González is a filmmaker, documentarian, and film teacher who has specialized in gender and film issues in Cuba. She was born in Camaguey, Cuba in 1961 and is a professor at Higher Institute of Art in Camaguey. She has published several books of essays and interviews. Her texts on cinema, genre, and audiovisual narrative have appeared in anthologies and publications of Cuba, Brazil, and Puerto Rico.
Humberto Solas's Lucía: From the Silk Noose to the Conscience
In the second installment of our six-part series on what makes Cuba’s revolutionary-era cinema still revolutionary today, Camaguey–based filmmaker and educator Oneyda González looks at the gender politics in Humberto Solas’s 1968 work, Lucía.