BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18714370 SEQUENCE:18809026 CREATED:20120530T053800Z DESCRIPTION:*CUBA FILM FESTIVAL*\n\n\n\nA day-long presentation of films from and about Cuba to benefit the 2012\nPastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba\n\n\n *1:00 - 10:30 p.m. Saturday June 2nd, 2012 - Resource Center for\nNonviolence - 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz*\n\n\nEach summer since 1992 the organization Pastors for Peace has sponsored a Caravan to Cuba to protest the 50-year U.S. blockade of travel and commerce with that country. On a dozen routes through the U.S. from Canada to Mexico, a hundred caravanistas accompany material aid gathered to benefit the Cuban people, ensure its passage into Mexico, load it onto a freighter in Tampico, and then spend nine days in Cuba learning about that island's post-revolutionary victories and struggles.\n\n\nThe Cuba Film Festival on Saturday June 2nd will raise funds for caravanista scholarships and for caravan expenses from Santa Cruz.\n\n\n*Donations are requested for entrance. and for snacks, finger-food and drinks, which will be available during the day.*\n\n\n*Film Schedule - **Main Auditorium*\n\n1:00 - Strawberry and Chocolate\n\n3:00 - The Waiting List\n\n5:00 - Fidel\n\n6:30 - 7:30 - Free time/snacks in lobby, Presentation of music and dance\n\n7:30 - Salud!\n\n9:10 - Maestra\n\n9:45 - Discussion of Maestra, with director Catherine Murphy and Cuban\nliteracy teacher (Maestra) participant Norma Guillard\n\n\n\n*Meeting Room*\n\n1:00 - With our Memory on the Future\n\n2:10 - Bloqueo\n\n3:00 - The Trial\n\n4:20 –Who’s Afraid of a Little Yellow Schoolbus\n\n5:00 - Power of Community\n\n6:00 - Free to Fly\n\n\n\n*Evening Program*\n\n** \n\n*Salud!* - (Connie Field; 2006;93 mins) - Find out what makes Cuba a ‘world\nhealth power’. Salud! looks at a cash-strapped country withwhat the BBC\ncalls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From Africa to the\nAmericas, meet some of the28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68\ncountries, and explore thehearts and minds of 30,000 international medical\nstudents studying for free inCuba - including over 150 from the USA….a MUST\nSEE for anybody wanting a betterhealth care system in the US.\n\n*Maestra* - (CatherineMurphy; 2010; 30 mins) - Cuba, 1961: 250,000\nvolunteers taught 700,000 peopleto read and write in one year. 100,000 of\nthe teachers were under 18. Over half were women. MAESTRA presents the\npersonal testimonies of the young women whowent out to teach literacy in\nrural communities across the island - and foundthemselves deeply\ntransformed in the process.\n\n*Come meet the director Catherine Murphy and one of those 250,000 volunteer\nteachers - Norma Guillard*\n\n*Film Descriptions*\n\n*Daytime Program*\n\n**\n\n*Strawberry and Chocolate* – (Cuban; Tomas Gutierrez Alea & Juan Carlos\nTabio; Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, 1994; 110 mins) - Sympathetic\nfictional story of the unlikely friendship between two Cuban men, one a\ngay, non-political artist and the other a straight Communist… A movie that\nplayed a transcendental role in opening a debate about homophobia in Cuba.\n\n*The Waiting List* - (Cuban; Juan Carlos Tabio; 2000; 100 mins) - Fictional\ntale of people, waiting for a bus that never comes, who transform the bus\nstation from a place they cannot leave to one which they do not want to\nleave. A highly humorous slice of life in modern Cuba.\n\n*Fidel* – (Cuban; Estela Bravo; 2001; 91 mins) - By far the best Biopic of\nCastro, featuring interviews with Fidel and with historians, public figures\nand friends, including Arthur Schlesinger, Ramsey Clark, Alice Walker,\nHarry Belafonte, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with historic Cuban archival\nfootage…. Hear how Fidel almost accidentally shot Soviet premier Kruschev.\n\n*With Our Memory on the Future* – (Cuban Federation of Women; 2006; 63\nmins) – A heart-warming, dynamic documentary on the leadership role of\nCuban women since the 1959 revolution. Interviews with women (and men) of\nall ages across that country, focusing on their work in the professions, in\ntraditional male jobs, and on the culture of machismo.\n\n*Bloqueo* - (Rachel Dannefer & Heather Haddon; 2004; 48 mins) - Filmed\nduring the 2001 Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, caravanistas and Cubans\nexplain how the US blockade works, its impact on Cubans every-day lives,\nand the achievements of their society despite the blockade…..11 years later\nit’s still all too true.\n\n*The Trial.* *The Untold Story of the Cuban Five - *(Cuban; Rolando\nAlmirante; 2007; 70 mins) - Documentary about 5 patriotic Cubans, in jail\nin the US since 1998, on trumped-up charges of conspiracy to commit\nespionage, interviews with defense and prosecuting attorneys. A dynamic\nportrayal that demonstrates the enormous injustice meted out to the Cuban\nFive. Narrated by Danny Glover.\n\n*Who's Afraid of a Little Yellow Schoolbus?* - (Pastors for Peace; 1993; 30\nmins) - During the 2nd Cuba Caravan in 1993, US Treasury officials seized a\nyellow schoolbus at the Texas border. The 13 passengers decided to stay on\nboard and fast until it was released to go to Cuba, while a campaign of\npressure was mounted on Washington. 23 days later…they won! An inspiring\nmovie.\n\n*The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil* - (Faith Morgan;\n2006; 53 mins) - Losing access to Soviet oil in 1991, Cuba faced an\nimmediate crisis – feeding the population – and an ongoing challenge to\ncreate a new low-energy society. Here is the story of the Cuban people's\nhardship, ingenuity, and triumph over sudden adversity – through\ncooperation, conservation, and community. An example as we face our own\nPeak Oil.\n\n*Free to Fly* – (Cuban; Estela Bravo; 2004; 33 mins) - To anywhere in the\nworld, except Cuba. A documentary history of the more than four decades of\ntravel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba, with arguments for the\nadvantages of free interchange.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/29/18714370.php SUMMARY:Cuba Caravan Film Festival LOCATION:The Resource Center for Nonviolence\n612 Ocean St\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/29/18714370.php DTSTART:20120602T200000Z DTEND:20120603T060000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR