Miñuca Villaverde is a Cuban film-maker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter on several productions by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), including “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction). After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films including “Blanca Puntica, A Girl in Love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award by the Creative Artists’ Program Service), “To My Father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, Still Ironing Her Husband Shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. Her documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most widely-recognised pieces of Cuban cinema made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, together with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los días de la coleccionista” (2010).