Documentary Films
Making The Impossible Possible
Making The Impossible PossibleMAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960’s. |
Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route
Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal RouteA man, a postal route, a changing city. Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route explores history and change in Detroit, through the lens of African American postal worker, Wendell Watkins, and the customers he has built ties with over 30 years on his route. |
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
Cuban Roots/Bronx StoriesHighlights the historical journey of an Afro-Cuban family, from Jamaica, to Cuba, to the Bronx, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. |
With a Stroke of the Chaveta
With a Stroke of the ChavetaA poetic documentary short that leaves us wondering where to draw the line between "worker" and "intellectual." |
Disobeying Orders: G.I. Resistance to The Vietnam War
Disobeying Orders: G.I. Resistance to The Vietnam WarFocuses on the antiwar movement within the armed forces during the Vietnam War. |
Remembering the Mamoncillo
Remembering the MamoncilloThe history and cultural importance of the Recordando el Mamoncillo festival and El Club Cubano is brought to life by dance scenes, testimonies of long-time members of the club and musical performances by Chico Alvarez y su Palo Monte, Son Sublime, the Charanga All-Stars, and Orquesta Broadway. |
News
Cuban Roots Bronx Stories at Santiago Álvarez Documentary Festival
February 26, 2025
Exciting News! Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories, in its new 4K version, has been selected in the 2025 Festival Internacional de Documentales
Santiago Alvarez. March 15 -21 in Santiago de Cuba!
Cuban Roots Bronx Stories Archive Goes to Schomburg Library
October 23, 2024
It was a proud day in August, 2024 when we delivered the archives of Cuban Roots Bronx Stories to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. All the original footage and interviews filmed in the Bronx and in Cuba will be digitized and made available to researchers interested in Afrolatinidad, Cuba, the 1960s Bronx, and US-Cuban relations. Pictured with the cart of goods are film protagonist Pablo Foster, Director Pam Sporn, and Shola Lynch, Curator of Moving Images and Recorded Sound.