Beyond Cigars, Salsa, Mojitos and Malecon: Finally, a Changing Cuba Jim Laurie - HuffPost
go to original August 11, 2015

'Reinventing Cuba' Documentary Film Trailer (Focus Asia)

The Cuban people are embracing change - as former NPR Latin America correspondent Gerry Hadden reveals in a remarkable new documentary film: Reinventing Cuba.

The film is produced by the American arm of China Central Television based in Washington. The Chinese connection helped Hadden gain access sometimes denied by the Cuban government to American film teams. It was not an easy film to produce. Having shot films in Cambodia, Vietnam, China, and North Korea, I know from long experience, they never are. In this case the film is ably executed by the loving cinematography of Cuban-born producer/cameraman Armando Guerra.

What emerges from Hadden's Reinventing Cuba is a story of an extraordinarily inventive, independent, creative and vibrant people who have learned to overcome any obstacle. No matter whether those obstacles have been imposed by the Americans and their now 53-year-old embargo, or by the policies of the Cuban government itself, Cubans have not only survived but thrived.

...It is an island where so much is scarce.

What is most striking is how out of such adversity have come real accomplishments; none more so than in the fields of biotechnology and medicine. What becomes clear is that better US-Cuba relations will of course be good for Cubans, but good also for Americans in ways not widely known.

Watch Reinventing Cuba Sunday August 16th at 7pm EST 11pm GMT online at cctvamericalive.com

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