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Cuba Caravan Film Festival | |
Date | Saturday June 02 |
Time | 1:00 PM - 11:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
The Resource Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean St Santa Cruz, CA 95060 |
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Event Type | Screening |
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*CUBA FILM FESTIVAL*
A day-long presentation of films from and about Cuba to benefit the 2012 Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba *1:00 - 10:30 p.m. Saturday June 2nd, 2012 - Resource Center for Nonviolence - 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz* Each 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. The Cuba Film Festival on Saturday June 2nd will raise funds for caravanista scholarships and for caravan expenses from Santa Cruz. *Donations are requested for entrance. and for snacks, finger-food and drinks, which will be available during the day.* *Film Schedule - **Main Auditorium* 1:00 - Strawberry and Chocolate 3:00 - The Waiting List 5:00 - Fidel 6:30 - 7:30 - Free time/snacks in lobby, Presentation of music and dance 7:30 - Salud! 9:10 - Maestra 9:45 - Discussion of Maestra, with director Catherine Murphy and Cuban literacy teacher (Maestra) participant Norma Guillard *Meeting Room* 1:00 - With our Memory on the Future 2:10 - Bloqueo 3:00 - The Trial 4:20 –Who’s Afraid of a Little Yellow Schoolbus 5:00 - Power of Community 6:00 - Free to Fly *Evening Program* ** *Salud!* - (Connie Field; 2006;93 mins) - Find out what makes Cuba a ‘world health power’. Salud! looks at a cash-strapped country withwhat the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From Africa to the Americas, meet some of the28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explore thehearts and minds of 30,000 international medical students studying for free inCuba - including over 150 from the USA….a MUST SEE for anybody wanting a betterhealth care system in the US. *Maestra* - (CatherineMurphy; 2010; 30 mins) - Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 peopleto read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18. Over half were women. MAESTRA presents the personal testimonies of the young women whowent out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and foundthemselves deeply transformed in the process. *Come meet the director Catherine Murphy and one of those 250,000 volunteer teachers - Norma Guillard* *Film Descriptions* *Daytime Program* ** *Strawberry and Chocolate* – (Cuban; Tomas Gutierrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabio; Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, 1994; 110 mins) - Sympathetic fictional story of the unlikely friendship between two Cuban men, one a gay, non-political artist and the other a straight Communist… A movie that played a transcendental role in opening a debate about homophobia in Cuba. *The Waiting List* - (Cuban; Juan Carlos Tabio; 2000; 100 mins) - Fictional tale of people, waiting for a bus that never comes, who transform the bus station from a place they cannot leave to one which they do not want to leave. A highly humorous slice of life in modern Cuba. *Fidel* – (Cuban; Estela Bravo; 2001; 91 mins) - By far the best Biopic of Castro, featuring interviews with Fidel and with historians, public figures and friends, including Arthur Schlesinger, Ramsey Clark, Alice Walker, Harry Belafonte, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with historic Cuban archival footage…. Hear how Fidel almost accidentally shot Soviet premier Kruschev. *With Our Memory on the Future* – (Cuban Federation of Women; 2006; 63 mins) – A heart-warming, dynamic documentary on the leadership role of Cuban women since the 1959 revolution. Interviews with women (and men) of all ages across that country, focusing on their work in the professions, in traditional male jobs, and on the culture of machismo. *Bloqueo* - (Rachel Dannefer & Heather Haddon; 2004; 48 mins) - Filmed during the 2001 Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, caravanistas and Cubans explain how the US blockade works, its impact on Cubans every-day lives, and the achievements of their society despite the blockade…..11 years later it’s still all too true. *The Trial.* *The Untold Story of the Cuban Five - *(Cuban; Rolando Almirante; 2007; 70 mins) - Documentary about 5 patriotic Cubans, in jail in the US since 1998, on trumped-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage, interviews with defense and prosecuting attorneys. A dynamic portrayal that demonstrates the enormous injustice meted out to the Cuban Five. Narrated by Danny Glover. *Who's Afraid of a Little Yellow Schoolbus?* - (Pastors for Peace; 1993; 30 mins) - During the 2nd Cuba Caravan in 1993, US Treasury officials seized a yellow schoolbus at the Texas border. The 13 passengers decided to stay on board and fast until it was released to go to Cuba, while a campaign of pressure was mounted on Washington. 23 days later…they won! An inspiring movie. *The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil* - (Faith Morgan; 2006; 53 mins) - Losing access to Soviet oil in 1991, Cuba faced an immediate crisis – feeding the population – and an ongoing challenge to create a new low-energy society. Here is the story of the Cuban people's hardship, ingenuity, and triumph over sudden adversity – through cooperation, conservation, and community. An example as we face our own Peak Oil. *Free to Fly* – (Cuban; Estela Bravo; 2004; 33 mins) - To anywhere in the world, except Cuba. A documentary history of the more than four decades of travel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba, with arguments for the advantages of free interchange.
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Added to the calendar on Tuesday May 29th, 2012 10:38 PM
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