Luis Molina-Casanova as Plenary Speaker Today at IFLA 2011, 8:30 a.m. at Puerto Rico Convention Center

Luis Molina-Casanova as Plenary Speaker Today at IFLA 2011, 8:30 a.m. at Puerto Rico Convention Center

LUIS MOLINA-CASANOVA is Resident Filmmaker and professor at the Communications Department of the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His academic degrees are in Marketing and Architecture, from the University of Puerto Rico and in Communications and Film production from the University of Madri.  He has successfully taken the Puerto Rican experience and its literature into the film industry.  Apart from his more than 30 years of teaching at the University of the Sacred Heart, he has taught courses on filmmaking at the University of Guadalajara, in Mexico, and at Harvard University.

Among his notable documentaries are: Boleto de Ida (1983); Luis Muñoz Marín: Un hombre, un pueblo, un propósito;  Diario de un poeta: la vida y obra de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1984) y Allá viene el temporal.  He also produced and directed La Guagua Aérea (The Air Bus, 1993), from an essay by Puerto Rican writer Luis Rafael Sánchez.  The film—which simultaneously provokes laughter and invites reflection in the viewer—centers around the theme of Puerto Rican emigration to the United States in the ’60s.  It presents a group of colorful travelers in an airplane going to New York City trying to initiate a better life; the travelers share one common denominator—the Puerto Rican soil and their roots.

Other important films are Los Cuentos de Abelardo (1990); El deporte como expresión cultural de un pueblo (1979) (a film dedicated to an another notable Puerto Rican filmmaker and actor, Jacobo Morales), Cuentos para despertar (película, 1997); and the Life of (2011).   He currently produces Tenderete, a cultural TV program transmitted in Televisión Española (TVE), and Tenderete puertorriqueño, a Puerto Rican cultural program.

In 1986 he served as Vice President of the Educational Films Program of the United Nations. He has been honored by several organizations for his outstanding work on Puerto Rican themes in film and has received the Medal of the Virgen de la Candelaria, Patron of the Islas Canarias, from the Ayuntamiento de las Islas Canarias, for representing the Islands at the Global level.

 

 

Podcasts and Ustream from the Ellen Tise (IFLA) /Ardis Hanson Conference

We are pleased to present the Urls to the podcasts and the video Ustream of the conference on

Learning/Research Commons in which

IFLA President Ellen Tise and

ACURIL President Ardis Hanson

participated on Friday, March 25, 2011 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The conference is entitled

The Challenge of and Strategies for Equal Access to Information

with Learning and Research Commons in Libraries in the Caribbean:

Moving Towards the Future and the Future is Here!

The event was held at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus,

and was organized by the IFLA 2011 PUERTO RICO National Committee

and the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies

of the University of Puerto Rico.

PODCASTS

http://ifla2011puertorico.wordpress.com/podcasts/

Appreciation is expressed to Master student Luis Méndez-Márquez for this contribution.

USTREAM

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ifla2011pr

Gratitude is also expressed to Master students Juam Pablo Delerme, Mario Torres

and Ricardo Ruiz, to graphic artist Neftalí Rodríguez,

and to our colleague Javier Almeida for his guidance in this first production in Ustream.

Luisa Vigo-Cepeda
Chair, IFLA 2011 PUERTO RICO,
National Committee

ifla2011.puertorico@upr.edu

ACURIL Executive Secretary
executivesecretariat@acuril.org

Welcome to Puerto Rico

The World Library and Information Congress 2011, 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, will take place at the Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

For a short video introduction to San Juan and Puerto Rico, please view this YouTube presentation:

More information regarding the 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly will be available on this website. Please check back at a later date.