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GLOVES WITHOUT RING

FIVE CUBAN FEMALE BOXERS ARE TRAINING IN THE HOPE OF RAISING THE NAME OF THEIR COUNTRY HIGH IN THIS SPORT, BUT IT IS NOT ALLOWED FOR FEMALES TO COMPETE PROFESSIONALLY.

  • KAREN SOTOLONGO MENÉNDEZ
    Director
  • ERNESTO MENÉNDEZ
    Writer
  • KAREN SOTOLONGO MENÉNDEZ
    Producer
  • FIDEL ROSELL
    Producer
  • NAMIBIA FLORES
    Key Cast
    "FIRST FEMALE CUBAN BOXER"
  • LEGNIS CALA MASO
    Key Cast
    "LA ZURDA"
  • KAREN CANTILLO PORTILLA
    Key Cast
    "BOXER"
  • JULIANNET DÍAZ
    Key Cast
    "LA GUAJI"
  • GISELL BELLO GARCÍA
    Key Cast
    "BOXER"
  • MAIKEL MASSO
    Key Cast
    "COACH"
  • RADAMÉ CASTILLO
    Key Cast
    "MEDALIST COACH"
  • MELUSINE DELFERIERE
    Key Cast
    "BELGIAN "
  • OSMANY MONTERO
    CREW
    FIRST ASSISTANT DIR.
  • MEHDI AGREBI
    CREW
    DOP
  • YUNIEL CEPENA
    CREW
    SOUND
  • YENNY P. RAMIREZ
    CREW
    SOUND
  • JENNY SÁNCHEZ
    CREW
    STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
  • CLAUDIA RAMOS ROQUE
    CREW
    PRODUCTION MANAGER
  • KARELYS HERRERA
    CREW
    PRODUCTION MANAGER
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    GUANTES SIN RING
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 11, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    8,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Cuba
  • Country of Filming:
    Cuba
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • PREMIER
    LA HABANA
    Cuba
    January 12, 2023
    CUBAN PREMIER
    NEW RELEASE
Distribution Information
  • CIELO FILMS
    Sales Agent
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - KAREN SOTOLONGO MENÉNDEZ

Professional Cuban Film Director, Editor, Art Director, Executive Producer and Actress graduated from the Spanish Metrópolis Education Center and the Barcelona's International Film School (ECIB)
Member of the Barcelona's Documentary Club and the National Union of Writers and Artists in Cuba (UNEAC), she has worked in more than twenty films such as ¨In her hands¨ produced by Netflix, Chelsea and Hillary Clinton with the Oscar nominated director Marsel Mettelsiefen and Tamana Ayazi, next to the famous editor Stephen Ellis; the ¨Moto GP Unlimited¨ streaming serie coproduced by MediaPro Studios and Amazon Prime Video, or her own films, achieving recognition for her work in and outside her native country; as well as the Austin International Art Festival, New York International Women Festival, Hollywood International Golden Age Festival, San Francisco and London Independent Festival and the most recently award for Best European Film Director at the Sweet Democracy Film Awards in Rome.
She currently works as a freelance artist on New York advocating mainly for pacifist and humanitarian causes.

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Director Statement

Yo sueño con los ojos abiertos,
Y de día y noche siempre sueño
Y sobre las espumas del ancho mar
Revuelto
Y por entre las crespas arenas del desierto
Y del león pujante
Monarca de mi pecho
Montado alegremente
Sobre el sumiso cuello
Un niño que me llama flotando
Siempre veo.
_

I dream with my eyes open
And Day and Night I always dream
And on the foams of the wide sea
Scrambled
And through the crisp desert sands
And of the mighty lion
Monarch of my chest
Gaily mounted
Over the submissive neck
A child who calls me floating
I always see.