In its third year, the Havana Glasgow Film Festival (HGFF) 2017 opened last night in Glasgow, Scotland. We spoke with Co-Director and Founder of the HGFF, Eirene Houston. Eirene works with Co-Director Hugo Rivalta (from Havana) to run the Festival each year. It’s the second day of the Festival, and Eirene is in a rush and her phone battery won’t recharge. We cornered her and she had enough time to answer a couple of our questions.
This interview with the Havana-Glasgow founder Eirene Houston has been archived and can be found in the upcoming book on Conversations with Cuba – The Cuba Interviews: 35 Conversations on Foreign Investment and Economic Development.

T.K. Hernández is co-founder and editor at Cuba Business Report. Her work has been published in various online news media. Hernández has supported fundraising for Cuba’s hurricane disaster relief campaigns and delivers medical supplies through the Not Just Tourists organization. She is a member of the Canadian Network on Cuba, The Writers Union of Canada, and ACES International Alliance of Editors. Ms. Hernández is the author of four books; most recently, “Sin título: The Art of Osmany Betancourt Falcón (Lolo) 2025.




