On April 9, 2025, the movie Ya no es antes screened at the Cinematheque. After the movie, leading actor Luis Alberto García, and cinema critic Juan Antonio García Borrero, talked about the current situation of the Cuban cinema, the importance of alternative audiovisual production, and the National Assembly for the Cinema, an unofficial organization whose aim is to reform the cinema law in Cuba, allow for the independent and out of the country production to be recognized as part of the audiovisual body of the nation, and to create a fund to support cinema producers outside the state ruled industry. Luis Alberto García and Juan Antonio García are two of the nine representatives to the Assembly. This event was organized by CWRU, Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, the Cinematheque, and Trasatlantica.
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