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 JUAN
CARLOS ZALDÍVAR, Cuba 1967
:: 90 Miles
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“Being
Cuban in America in 2001 to me, means being torn between what's
right and wrong, being tired of conflict, of being a victim. I think
most of us want to move on. I do.”
Director
and producer Juan Carlos Zaldivar studied at New York University's
Film School. His student work received a number of prominent awards,
including a nomination for a Student Academy Award in the
Experimental Category for his second short, Paligenesis. He
has collaborated closely with the prestigious Sundance Film Festival
and was elected a Sundance Film Institute Fellow in 1998. Juan
produces for the PBS show "In The Life", and his own works
have also aired on television. He teaches at the Undergraduate Film
Program at NYU and is a member of the National Association of Latino
Independent Producers. The film he will be showing in Barbados, 90
Miles, won the Best Documentary Prize at the 2001 Havana
International Festival of New Latin American Film.
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 90
MILES
Year: 2001
Length: 79 minutes
Language: English and Spanish with English Subtitles
Genre: Documentary
 The
United States and Cuba are only 90 miles away from each other, yet a
huge political, historical, and economic separation exists between
them. 90 Miles is a documentary about the deep wound Cubans
and Cuban-Americans live with every day because of this divide.
Through the microcosm of my family's experience, 90 Miles
sheds new light on the often-oversimplified Cuban-American issue.
“With
90 Miles I attempt to repair the damage that my relationship
with my father suffered when we made the decision to leave Cuba in
1980 on an overcrowded boat. The film puts a face to a politically
charged topic and serves as a testament to the Cuban and
Cuban-American experience.”
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