January 15, 2012. Unfinished Spaces Wins Prestigious "Jameson FIND Your Audience Award"
The Award is accompanied by a major grant to help expand the film's reach. The Award will be announced during the Film Independent Spirit Awards, to broadcast live on IFC on February 25, 2012.
The documentary was co-led by Alysa Nahmias and Ben Murray. "Unfinished Spaces" is a film about the National School of Art in Cuba and the video we bring today is a summary of the film images by Alysa Nahmias also and Ben Murray to the website of the World Monuments Fund. Further information can be visited at the documentary's official website: Unfinished Spaces link below.
Producer: Luis Ortiz
Script: Alysa Nahmias, Benjamin Murray
Photography: Benjamin Murray
Editor: Kristen Nutile, Alex Minnick
Music, Composer: Giancarlo Vulcano
Synopsis: In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
