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"'CUBA Libre?'"
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27 years old
Miami, FLORIDA
United States
Last Login:7/19/2008
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| Website | RiskyFilms.com | | Directors | Writer/Director/Producer:
Risky
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3vol | | Professional Affiliations | Executive Producers:
JAG
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| General | CUBA: The Aftermath or The Beginning? | | Music | | | Heroes | The Cuban people who will assist in the making of this documentary |
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CUBA !, THE BEST ISLANDS EVER !!!!, Free Cuba Foundation, No Che, No Fidel, No Raul, No Socialist Puppets, No Problems !, The Cuban Krew!, CUBA'S FINEST, The Cuban Connection, Youth Power
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| Status: | Swinger | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus |
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Risky Films, LLC
Miami, Florida US
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About me:
Two men. Two Cameras. 11 million Cubans. One Fidel Castro.
In September of 2006, two filmmakers will embark to Cuba during a moment of great
uncertainty in the country. Fidel Castro, the only leader this small, yet
strong island has known for the last 47 years, lies in unknown conditions,
perhaps his deathbed, while a country waits for its destiny. Will it
continue his legacy of Communism? Will the tyranny and oppression come to
an end? Is there a revolution brewing similar to Castros own in the early
50's? One thing history has taught is that change is inevitable.
Cuba is a country which continues to see its citizens fleeing illegally and
dangerously into the vast oceans that surround it in homemade rafts and old
boats, on deadly voyages to Florida and the surrounding islands. Why do
they flee? Do they not have food? Or water? Or healthcare? Or free
education for everyone? Why risk your life crossing an ocean on a 6 foot
rubber raft? For a nice television? Are these just a few, materialistic
Cubans with ambitions beyond their means? Or is it the oppression, cruelty,
and lack of political freedom? How do they feel now that their leader is
ill or perhaps dying? Do they realize the changes that will occur when
Castro can no longer make his five hour speeches to his people?
We will try to get all of these
questions answered first hand. As we will arrive in Cuba, as filmmakers
with one intention: to show the world the possible collapse of the first
and last standing dictator of the Western hemisphere, from the eyes of the
people he ruled.
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Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba on New Years Day in 1959, by staging a
guerilla war against the army of President Fulgencio Batista. The war took
many years of dedicated and strategic fighting alongside his brother Raul
and the Argentinean revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. They successfully
freed the country of its corrupt dictator and the people cheered on the
streets in support of Fidel. Soon after, Castro began to steer the country
towards Communism, nationalizing banks, farms and American owned business.
The pro-democracy Cubans that expected freedom, an honest government, and a
return to the constitution, instead got a Stalinist style government where
brutal force, jail, and even death were used to sustain the people. Castro
kept his power through fear, secret police, and political force much like
Hitler and Stalin. Many fled the country to the Untied States at this time,
and many more continue to flee to this day.
Castros friendships with the old Soviet Union and more recently with the Marxist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continue to upset the US government today. Bringing up the
question if the US will step in and remove the Communist state once its
poster child Fidel Castro is gone? If so, why hasnt the worlds most
dominant Democratic force done it yet? Dozens of supposed plots to
overthrow the government and over 600 attempts to assassinate Castro have
failed. How can the US justify the war in Iraq and ignore the tyranny
occurring just 90 miles from our soil?
But more importantly, do the people of Cuba really feel that way? Are they oppressed? Are they happy? If they are not, can they even say they are not? Fear of being jailed, like so many government critics have been for even speaking poorly about Castro, must
have a bias affect. How about a current revolution for democracy? Will the
people support it?
In CUBA: The Aftermath or The Beginning?, we will explore the countrys largest city and capital, Havana, and travel to the outer cities and farm lands as far as Oriente to find out where the support is and where the Cuban people stand. We will ask why the Cuban people still feel the need to flee across the Caribbean in rafts and leaky boats to reach political freedom. All these questions, we hope, will be answered by the people, who are the ones who need to make the decision: Will the end of Castro be the end of Cubas socialism? Will the US be welcome? The Cuban people, strong and self-righteous, will let us know soon enough.
The points and questions brought up will be a part of this documentary/adventure/firsthand look at a moment in political history of a country where 2/3 of the population has known no other leader. Will they support his views after his death? Or will the Western influence overtake an old and outdated vision? We hope to find out and hope to give a voice to
the people who have not had a voice in over 47 years.
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