| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 120 min.)) : sound, color |
| Summary |
In the summer of 1994, a team of public television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans a few days before their risky venture of setting out to sea in homemade rafts to reach the coast of the United States. Six made it far enough to be picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard. When these balseros (rafters) were finally allowed to go to the United States, the film crew went with them to a string of several cities. Seven years later, the film crew visits them again, to discover that their destiny has been in the United States. Theirs is a true story about some of the authentic survivors of our times, the human adventure of people who are shipwrecked between two worlds. Accolades *Best Documentary Academy Award Nominee *Amnesty Award Honorable Mention CPH:DOX *Best Documentary Goya Award Nominee *Best Work of a Non-Latin American Director on a Latin America Subject - Documentary Havana Film Festival *Memoria Documentary Award Havana Film Festival *Best Feature Documentary IDA Awards *Best DocumentaryTuria Awards "The documentary achieves a rare depth and intimacy in its portrait of dreams fulfilled and shattered." -Hollywood Reporter "An eloquent, nonjudgmental examination of the immigrant experience."-Minneapolis Star Tribune "Compelling." -The Park Record Poignant, spirited, revealing. -Christian Science Monitor |
| Analysis |
Latin American Studies |
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North American Studies |
| Notes |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002 |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Josep Ma̲ Domènech ; music, Lucrecia ; editor, Ernest Blasi |
| Performer |
Mericys Gonzalez, Misclaida Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Subiza, Oscar Del Valle, Guillermo Armas, Miriam Hernandez, Rafael Cano |
| Notes |
In Spanish with English subtitles |
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MPAA rating: Not rated |
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Academy Awards, Best Documentary Feature, Nominee, 2004 |
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Havana Film Festival, Best Foreign Documentary and Memory Documentary Award, 2002 |
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Online resource; title from title screen (viewed April 8, 2021) |
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Refugees -- Cuba
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Immigrants -- United States.
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Cubans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Cubans -- Social conditions.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Immigrants.
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International relations.
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Refugees.
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Cuba -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002050
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United States -- Relations -- Cuba
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Cuba -- Relations -- United States
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Cuba.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Internet videos.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Roca, Tom, 1953-2021, film producer.
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Solera, Ma Jose, film producer
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Omedes, Loris, film producer.
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Bosch, Carles, screenwriter, film director.
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Trueba, David, 1969- screenwriter.
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Domènech, Josep Ma., film director, director of photography.
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Lucrecia (Vocalist), composer (expression)
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Blasi, Ernest, editor of moving image work.
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Seventh Art Releasing (Firm), presenter, publisher.
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Televisió de Catalunya, presenter.
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Bausan Films, presenter.
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Buenavida Producciones (Firm), presenter.
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Vía Digital (Firm), presenter.
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