FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Next Screening: Free Speech Tv, USA
Next Screening: Tv Cordoba, Argentina
Offical Selection: Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
"This film holds a slice of the Cuban soul for all of us to ruminate"
"A well-crafted film essay on a country most forget"
"One of the better produced and enjoyable documentaries about a serious subject"
"A crystal clear window into a crumbling world"
BYE BYE HAVANA
58 min., English/Spanish (opt. subtitles)
For all Havana's crumbling structures and piles of rubble, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, its plethora of armed policemen and sun-bleached billboards espousing their pat, revolutionary slogans, it attracts over a million pink-skinned, camera-toting, snack-munching mojito-swilling tourists each year.
Cuba stands pummeled by an unworkable socialism and a voracious consumer appetite. What began more than forty six years ago seems spent, "patriotism or death" are simply not enough. Cubans want other choices, other points of view, and they can't wait any longer. But defeating the autocracy also means Cubans will need to relinquish much of their collective conscience in order to chase individual profit and personal freedom.
Bye Bye Havana is 90 miles from being political. This fast-paced stream of conscience documentary presents a unique flavor of irony, carried by an eclectic soundtrack featuring Latin Grammy Nominee X Alfonso, hip hop by Free Hole Negro, pianist Roberto Carcasses and jazz poet Telmary.
Filmmaker J. Michael Seyfert, a constant commuter between journalism and the creative arts, is leaving behind the limitations of entertainment in favor of a more substantial task: to meaningfully and directly affect the plight of his subjects through his work.
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