Miñuca Villaverde Read Bio Collapse
Miñuca Villaverde is a Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), including El parque (1963, documentary) and Elena (1964, fiction). After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as Blanca Puntica, A Girl In Love (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists’ Program Service, CAPS), To my father (1974), and Poor Cinderella, Still Ironing Her Husband’s Shirt (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. Her documentary Tent City (1980), about a refugee camp in Miami during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban cinema made in the diaspora. She has published the books Fue una gran fiesta (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and Los días de la coleccionista (2010).