Sara Gómez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sara Gómez

Cuban film director

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1942

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 02-Jun-1974

Profession: screenwriter, painter, journalist, film director

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sara Gómez aka Sarita Gómez (November 8, 1942 – June 2, 1974) was a Cuban filmmaker.
As a member of ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, in English: Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry) during its early years, she was one of only two black filmmakers in attendance.
She was the institute's first and for her lifetime, Cuba's only, woman director.
Gómez is known for her first and final feature-length film De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) (1974).
Gómez was a revolutionary filmmaker she was concerned in representing the Afro-Cuban community, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society.
Sara Gómez's filmmaking identifies the problems of colonialism, specifically experienced by previously marginalized communities (black people, women, poor, religious, and young people) who were unaware of the possibilities of a better future.
"Exposing the roots of the world that had to be left behind and demanding the arrival of the future: her mission was to allow these communities to understand the process of what was happening in their lives, their needs, and possible departures." Gómez worked through representing inequalities shown throughout divisions of class, racial discrimination, and gender.
She used the lens of her camera and ethnographic knowledge to narrate histories about everyday lives in revolutionary Cuba.