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Reinventing Cuba
directed by Armando Guerra, fl. 2015 and Gerry Hadden, fl. 2000; produced by CCTV America and SW Pictures; interview by Gerry Hadden, fl. 2000 (United Kingdom: SW Pictures, 2015), 54 mins
In Cuba, more than 50-years of isolation & restrictions have created a society where people have learned to be creative & inventive and adapt to the lack of goods & restrictions. In this film we meet some of these creative & inventive people and gain an amazing insight into how they have overcome many hardships. C...
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directed by Armando Guerra, fl. 2015 and Gerry Hadden, fl. 2000; produced by CCTV America and SW Pictures; interview by Gerry Hadden, fl. 2000 (United Kingdom: SW Pictures, 2015), 54 mins
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In Cuba, more than 50-years of isolation & restrictions have created a society where people have learned to be creative & inventive and adapt to the lack of goods & restrictions. In this film we meet some of these creative & inventive people and gain an amazing insight into how they have overcome many hardships. Cuba is a world leader in affordable health care and many of their medical inventions have been adopted worldwide. We meet the doctors,...
In Cuba, more than 50-years of isolation & restrictions have created a society where people have learned to be creative & inventive and adapt to the lack of goods & restrictions. In this film we meet some of these creative & inventive people and gain an amazing insight into how they have overcome many hardships. Cuba is a world leader in affordable health care and many of their medical inventions have been adopted worldwide. We meet the doctors, the inventors of vaccines & the recipients of free health care. Despite the lack of materials, their artists and designers are finding ways of creating amazing new stuff and gaining international recognition. We meet some of these artists and tap into their eternal optimism. With little access to the internet, clandestine publications have been created to let the population know about the latest news, music and movies – all distributed on hard-drives around the island nation. We meet the man who created "The Package" – the weekly "underground publication" that informs most Cubans of the latest news. And despite turning out some of the best baseball players in the world, from a young age Cubans are unable to play with a real baseball as they either can’t afford one or it’s not available. We meet the little leaguers and a teenager on the verge of stardom. Despite all of these issues, Cuba is changing, opening, reinventing itself.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
CCTV America, SW Pictures
Author / Creator
Armando Guerra, fl. 2015, Gerry Hadden, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
SW Pictures
Topic / Theme
Cuba and the United States Border, Economic conditions, Embargoes, Black markets, United States Imposes Embargo Against Cuba, October 19, 1960, Politics & Policy, Medicine, The Arts, Cubans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2015 SW Pictures
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