Norma Torrado
- Editor
- Writer
Norma Torrado had two loves since her youth: cinema and santería, the
religion the Yorubas brought to America. She joined the Cine-Club
Visión in the early fifties and studied journalism at La Habana
University. In 1961 she began to work in the Cuban film institute
(ICAIC) as editor of newsreels. From 1964 she became Santiago Alvarez'
editor, and together they worked on classic documentaries as Now!
(1965), Hanoi, martes 13 (1967) and LBJ (1968). Due to illness she
retired from filmmaking, but she collaborated on the script of Cecilia,
thanks to her growing interest in santería. She lives in Miami, travels
extensively and lectures on santería and film editing.