Directed by Alexandro Ramirez | Cuba | Spanish w/English subtitles | 2014 | Documentary | 80 mins
Film Source: Americas Media Initiative
There will be a post-screening Q & A via skype with Cuban journalist Mónica Rivero Cabrera, moderated by Alexandra Halkin, Director, Americas Media Intiative
In 2010, famed Cuban musician Silvio Rodriguez started an ongoing tour through the poorest neighborhoods of Havana. Following Silvio for two years, Song of the Street explores a largely invisible and silenced Cuba, the complexity of which is revealed through the voices of the film’s participants. Song of the Street is a documentary that unveils, layer by layer, neighborhood by neighborhood, the pain, deterioration, imagination, violence, resignation, humor, outrage, despair and precarious hope of Cuba’s poor.