State culture award to Hubert Sauper
Variety: ‘Epicentro’ Director Hubert Sauper, Oscar Nominee With ‘Darwin’s Nightmare,’ on Cinema and Colonialism
Variety: ‘Epicentro’ Director Hubert Sauper, Oscar Nominee With ‘Darwin’s Nightmare,’ on Cinema and Colonialism
ABC10: ‘Epicentro’ Review: A monumental and monumentally complex observation of Cuba at a crossroads
Viennale Blog: Best Austrian Film EPICENTRO, Hubert Sauper, Austria/France 2020
Variety: Oscar-Nominee Hubert Sauper Takes a Swipe at Teddy Roosevelt, Teases Upcoming Award
POV Magazine: Hubert Sauper’s Sundance winner is complex and provocative
It's Just Movies: Sauper has won more than 50 awards over the course of his career. “Epicenter” will be another big winner.
IDFA: IDFA selects Epicentro in it's Master's Selection
Deadline: "Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the people of Havana—who he calls “young prophets”—to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself."
Vimooz: Sundance Winner EPICENTRO Opens in Virtual Cinemas in Late August
First Showing: "Shot and edited by the director himself, it is also a gorgeously handmade work of art."
Rogers Movie Nation: Beautiful Cuba as the “Epicentro” of human “dystopia”
Irish Film Critic: You’re definitely going to enjoy this movie, it captures Cuba and its people in such a beautiful light rarely seen in film.
Slant Magazine: It alternates political ponderings with a loose and discursive subtext in which Hubert Sauper explores the idea of Cuba as an island paradise.
Salon: "What emerges is a vibrant portrait of a people and a nation that is trying to maintain its own identity without foreign interference."
NY Times: "The Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Sauper explores vestiges of foreign presence in Cuba, from the ground up."
Hammer to Nail: "...nevertheless stands as a monumental tribute to a place deserving of better than it normally gets."
Film School Radio: Interview with Hubert Sauper
Film Forward: "... is an essential watch for anyone interested in present-day Cuba, its future, and its fascinating contradictions."
