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Cuban Roots Bronx Stories at Santiago Álvarez Documentary Festival
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 25th Anniversary Screening
Cuban Roots Bronx Stories Archive Goes to Schomburg Library
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.
50% Off Detroit 48202 DVD in May With Code MAYDVD50
Don't Miss Out! Get 50% off a DVD of Detroit 48202 for your classroom or library at New Day Films during May '24 with code MAYDVD50.
Grito Productions Returns to Santiago de Cuba
Grito Productions Director Pam Sporn with New Day Film members and students and faculty from the University of Oriente March, 2024.
Reflections on Programming Independent U.S. Documentaries for a Cuban Film Festival
The XX Santiago Álvarez Documentary Film Festival in Santiago de Cuba from March 3 - 8, 2023 would be dedicated to the Independent Documentary of the United States (each year the festival is dedicated to the filmmakers of a specific country)! What? A Cuban film festival honoring the filmmakers from the very country that has tried to strangle the island nation with a devastating economic blockade for the last 64 years? What a great idea, I thought.
Grito Productions Returns to Santiago Álvarez Festival
In 2020 Detroit 48202 won the Jury Award at the Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Álvarez in Memoriam in Santiago de Cuba.
Subsequently, the festival directors decided to dedicate the following festival to "The Independent Documentary of the United States," and asked me to curate a special showcase of US documentaries.
Detroit 48202 at InLight Film Festival
“Detroit 48202 is a powerfully crafted and visually compelling homage to black life, resilience, and the project of world-making from the optic and lived experience of a laboring Detroit mailman,” said Professor Michael T. Martin, former Director of The Black Film Center and Archive, after seeing Detroit 48202 at the InLight Film Festival at Indiana University in April 2022.
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