This Thursday, premiere of documentary about Mireya Luis

August 7, 2025

The premiere of the chapter dedicated to legendary volleyball player Mireya Luis, from the documentary series ADN Cuba, will take place this Thursday, at five in the afternoon, in the Charles Chaplin hall.

The event is included among the activities for the IX Summer Film Festival, reported Alexis Triana Hernández, president of the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC), at a press conference held at the institution's headquarters.

Alongside the Morena del Caribe, three-time Olympic champion, was the renowned filmmaker Alejandro Gil, who thanked his work team, including producer Milton Alvarado, and director of photography Luis Alberto Ramírez.

Also in attendance was His Excellency Nakamura Kazuhito, ambassador of Japan in Cuba, and cultural attaché Tajika Akishi, who agreed in expressing their admiration for Mireya, well known in the Asian nation for what she has represented for world volleyball.

She expressed the great significance it has for her to have been one of those chosen for the aforementioned documentary series, which allowed her to learn about her ancestors and her nature.

"I am very happy and I consider myself privileged to have done something more than just jumping or spiking, and to be able to tell my story," she said.

"It has represented something beautiful, I think the identity of a human being is fundamental, knowing where you were born, who my ancestors are. It was a wonderful experience and from there on, a before and after. Now I think differently, I have learned many things and I doubly appreciate what I have," she asserted.

The spectacular former attacker revealed a detail to JIT about her DNA. "I have 50 percent from my mother and my father each, and that was one of the things that impressed me the most, and in another sense I have something that my grandson could inherit, not my daughter. Can you imagine? My only grandson!"

"About my relationship with sports I learned that my musculature is that of a person who can do jumping sports, speed and strength sports, like throwing. In reality, all of this has been wonderful."

The renowned scientist Beatriz Marcheco Teruel, a specialist in clinical genetics, in her virtual intervention emotionally recounted passages from her experience leading the team that conducted the investigations on the protagonists, which she described as "a true honor."

The other chapters of the ADN Cuba Series are dedicated to troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, actor Osvaldo Doimeadiós, painter Roberto Diago and researchers and writers Zuleica Romay and Nelson Aboy.