Teresa Toledo
Teresa Toledo | |
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| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | Latin American film |
| Institutions | Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos |
Teresa Toledo Cabrera (born 1946) is a Cuban film scholar. She worked for decades at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos before moving to Spain due to the Special Period recession. She has written or edited four books and is a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow.
Biography
Teresa Toledo Cabrera was born in 1946 in Havana.[1][2][a] She was educated at the School of Dramatic Arts and an Alliance française.[2] She later studied history at the University of Havana,[1] where she obtained her licentiate in 1977.[2]
In 1963, Toledo joined the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, working as an archivist and as the principal specialist for the Latin American film section,[2] which she herself started.[1] She also started chairing the Cuban Film Center's documentation center in 1978.[2] She left Cuba due to the country's economic crisis in the Special Period, and permanently settled in Madrid in July 1996.[3] Moving to Spain, she became a researcher at the Filmoteca Española, as well as a programmer at the Casa de América.[1][2]
Toledo studies Latin American cinema.[1] She is author of 10 años del nuevo cine latinoamericano (1990)[4] In 1999,[5] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a dictionary of Latin American film directors.[2][1] In collaboration with the San Sebastián International Film Festival, she was editor of Utopías y realidades: el cine latinoamericano de los noventa (2001),[6] Construyendo el cine (latinoamericano) (2002),[7] and Imágenes en libertad (2003).[8] She and Argentine filmmaker Nicolás Saad co-edited Miradas: el cine argentino de los noventa, published by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation in 2000.[9]
Notes
- ^ Sources differ; the Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano says she was born on 5 February,[1] while the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation says 2 May.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Teresa Toledo". Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1999. p. 171.
- ^ García, Rocío (10 September 2013). ""El cine de Latinoamérica no dejará la política"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "10 años del nuevo cine latinoamericano". Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Teresa Toledo Cabrera". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on 27 March 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Utopías y realidades: el cine latinoamericano de los noventa". Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Construyendo el cine (latinoamericano)". Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Imágenes en libertad". Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Miradas: el cine argentino de los noventa / dirigido por Teresa Toledo ; edición de Nicolás Saad, Teresa Toledo". Biblioteca Especializada en Cine y Medios Audiovisuales (in Spanish). Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes. Retrieved 8 August 2025.