Cuba Week 2015: Screening of “La pelicula de Ana”
Date and Time
Mar 3, 2015 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Mar 3, 2015 5:00 pm
14th & V
Join us for a Screening of "La pelicula de Ana" followed by a discussion with panelist Louise Meyer and moderator by Rosa Grillo.
La pelicula de Ana is about a professional actress without much luck in her career puts her acting skills to the test and, out of exceptional circumstances, she becomes an audiovisual director. In her new capacity, she embarks upon the shooting of an unexpected fake documentary about prostitution in Cuba, in which she is included among the protagonists. But that would be just the beginning of her adventures - and their complex aftermath.
Moderator:
Rosa Grillo is a public relations professional and principal consultant of Grillo & Company, a marketing and communications firm specializing in marketing strategies, community engagement, multicultural campaigns, branding, and media relations. Her specialty is promoting initiatives that strengthen communities. She developed a global perspective on problem solving in 2006 when she studied social entrepreneurship at INSEAD, an international graduate business school.
Grillo has a long record of involvement in the small and minority business community. She has served as chair of the board of Unity Health Care, Inc., and as a board member of WPFW radio and the Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
A Washington, DC native of Afro-Cuban heritage, Ms. Grillo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida Atlantic University
Panelist:
Louise Meyer, a Co-Founder of the non-profit organization, Solar Household Energy (SHE), has been an environmental activist her entire adult life. She was SHE’s Project Manager for U.S. EPA’s Partnership for Clean Indoor Air’s project in Mexico researching solar cookers and smoke inhalation and also headed the World Bank’s Development Marketplace grant for “HotPot solar oven Initiative†in Mexico. Louise identified the urgent need for an alternative cooking fuel to wood for rural populations while living in Ivory Coast, West Africa on a contract with the International Labor Organization. Louise holds an MA in French and German Language and Literature and a graduate degree in International Development from the African Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Louise traveled to Cuba in 2009 with a study group to learn firsthand about Cuba’s Energy Revolution.
Free and open to all!
