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Cuban Roots at the Schomburg Library - 9/24/25

September 26, 2025

CUBAN ROOTS to Screen at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

September 16, 2025

Cuban Roots 25th Anniversary Featured on BronxNet

May 13, 2025

Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories featured in Intervenxiones

April 10, 2025

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 25th Anniversary Screening

January 28, 2025

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.

50% Off Detroit 48202 DVD in May With Code MAYDVD50

May 20, 2024

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

February 6, 2024

  

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

April 14, 2023

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.

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