Did you know that June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month as well as Black Music Month? In honor of the occasion, on this last day of June, this post highlights a few recent–and one classic–documentary films featuring Caribbean music. What are your favorite Caribbean music docs? Calypso Dreams (dir: Geoffrey Dunn & Michael Horne, 2004) traces… Read more »
Tag: Cuba
Danny Glover visits Cuba with UNICEF
By: Arsenio Garcia, Published June 20, 2011 HAVANA, Cuba, 20 June 2011 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and internationally acclaimed actor Danny Glover visited Havana last week to attend the opening session of the regional workshop entitled ‘Cuba and the Afro-Descendant Peoples of the Americas’. The UNICEF-supported event was organized by the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute… Read more »
The Day Diplomacy Died with Bernie Dwyer: April 12 @ BFC/A
The Day Diplomacy Died Come see the film and meet the filmmaker. This new documentary by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo exposes the story behind the lock up of 75 “independent” journalists, trade unionists, and librarians in Cuba in 2003 through the eyes of four ex-Cuban state agents working undercover. The mainstream media never… Read more »