Over a million Canadians visit Cuba every year being the nationality that vacations the most on the Island. Thus, many of their perceptions of Cubanness are linked to stereotypes related to the commercial tourist industry. Also, via the Canadian immigration system thousands of Cubans have become permanent residents of Canada in recent years. Located across Canada, Cuban filmmakers have produced films in collaboration with institutions such as the Toronto Film School, Ryerson University, the National Film Board of Canada and the project Kinomada Quebec. The low budget-short films included in this program expand from fiction to experimental and animation; some connected to the homeland and others engaged in a more global understanding of the art and industry of filmmaking.Over a million Canadians visit Cuba every year being the nationality that vacations the most on the Island. Thus, many of their perceptions of Cubanness are linked to stereotypes related to the commercial tourist industry. Also, via the Canadian immigration system thousands of Cubans have become permanent residents of Canada in recent y …
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some free Cuba was produced by the
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National Film Board and I it was my
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first film in this country it was an
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amazing experience for me to work with
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in a professional context with such a
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nice group of professionals before the
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wars is different a different role it
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was produced last year is an independent
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film it was my second experience
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directing in Canada a very different
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story from the first one but yeah I hope
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you enjoyed hello everyone thank you for
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coming my name is Rodrigo and my film
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was for thorium it was the first film
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that you saw tonight it’s so weird to
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see it because it’s it was made almost
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three years ago and it was my thesis
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film when I was a rising University I
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graduated from rice and film school and
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it was a film that I did when I was in
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my last year it was a very special film
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for me because it was the first time
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that i did a narrative filmmaking a
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fictional narrative and bass you can see
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a subject matter is quite sensitive so
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it was a very beautiful project when it
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comes to the research that we had to do
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on the amount of people that we met so
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yeah quite pleased that i could show you
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tonight to all of you thank
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she seemed a gaseous landed SEO night
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Hetty well I’m gonna believe glad cafe
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percentile Concordia University
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University por parte de ver SI circuit
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to it lava handle I apologize people and
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for my translation Tostan something that
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I do the things the festival for the
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opportunity of being here tonight he
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this film was part of the exercises that
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he had to do when he was in Concordia
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University in Montreal yeah jajaja que
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unos imaginative Chiodos Angus
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acquainted cincuenta say cincuenta x ESO
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una familia quan hai class Amelia hey
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this is a archival footage on he brought
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from Cuba and it was shot in the 1950s
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nineteen fifty six hundred fifty-seven
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fifty-eight o que é o que é and sort of
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party and famous only man in a KO film
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and kuba en la CI Quebec the rest of the
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film is composed by images are he shot
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in Cuba and in the city of Quebec e
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depois they don’t laboratory on kino
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mafias ok Sarah pelicula after a
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workshop at three day workshop that he
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didn’t kill Amara he finally managed to
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make this film but it’s a healthy today
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employs a CO and this is why the film is
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call improvisation but enter when I
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heard Cesar pediment aziem so it is an
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exercise of improvisational and
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improvisational exercise done the new
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head yo fundamental atomatic el viaje y
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la meta meta for albi ahi al mismo
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tiempo el movimiento idea in my head SP
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solace its primary focus or object was
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the metaphor that a surrounds traveling
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mentally my anything solid and also
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concert surrounding a movement of the
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images whenever she met her he better
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got a helluva leagues thank you very
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much i hope you liked it
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hi everyone my name is Jen I and I made
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meaningful things as an exercise for my
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editing class in Toronto Film School
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message if there are questions from the
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audience I just witness a wonderful
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moment is generally when you work with
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filmmakers and they present their work I
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have been able to translate them
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throughout our presentations but this is
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just fantastic yeah we were working a
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very tight deadline because I mean when
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you go into the real world you can allow
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yourself all the time that you have
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because but when you are a student you
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have one school year to make this film
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and it has to happen and if it doesn’t
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happen you don’t graduate and you fail
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and you have to go back to square one so
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it was a very organic process the actual
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film making itself was only three weeks
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of pre-production a week of production
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and about two months of post-production
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but the actual work that took to get to
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the filming was about seven months so it
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was seven months of me meeting with
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teenagers with Down syndrome parents of
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teenagers with Down syndrome doctors and
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writing draft at after draft after draft
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and giving it to people who i was
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involved with the dancing new community
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and kind of filtering the film and at
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some point i had to let it go because
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many of them would say oh this is
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something that my brother would dancing
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them would totally do and then someone
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else who come along and say my brother
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would never ever go near a stove thank
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you and at some point I had to
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understand that there is a different
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spectrums of disability and as long as a
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couple of people gave me the green light
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so that whole process took about six
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than a month but the filmmaking itself
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was very short
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I think condition of Cuban dance pouring
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filmmaking especially of our generation
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as I call it that postal thousand
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generation when I was confronted with
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Rodriguez film for the first time I had
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already done some research and I had
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found it kind of filmmaking among young
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people who lived off the island who was
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in many ways looking back at home so
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that’s why the project is called brutes
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that tires to the to a place and roots
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are utes those paths new paths that we
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track as desperate subjects in new
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places and so be a Ford orient I said
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where is Cuba there right and give the
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art and that’s the only because the the
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they are direction it’s a there are many
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are pieces that are by Cuban artists but
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if you don’t know Cuban art then how do
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you connect that there’s no direct link
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to the island right and there’s no
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direct link to Canada except for the
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weather report you know that Toronto
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will be cold and Saskatchewan is
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freezing there but really there is no
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linked to link to a place and I realize
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okay then should that stream be as part
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of be part of this festival and I said
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yes why not right rodeo I remember when
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I interviewed him for the first time he
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said I I don’t want to be known as a
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Cuban filmmaker so much because
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nationality is a burden and everyone
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right national stays kind of
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constrictors we cannot ignore them but
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there are also filmmakers engaging in
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more global a form of him making he said
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I want to be a concerned filmmaker not
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really not necessarily a Cuban so here
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in this in what you just saw I think you
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see some links to the homeland but also
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you see filmmakers that just are
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creating they are from Cuba but we don’t
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have secure a turd I didn’t want to be
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obsessed with the idea of trying to find
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Cuba in those works right it’s part of
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what we are on that is also Cuba and new
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Cuba diaspora cube of our generation I
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don’t want to put word out words on the
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other filmmakers but I am concerned
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about storytelling and not so much from
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the actual play
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where I come from I think a the
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necessity of telling stories and innate
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need of human beings nor Cuban human
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beings having said that I am very proud
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of where I come from and but again it
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always comes back to the idea that i
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have the moment and how it makes more
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sense who executed my things was for
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Dorian and my next film is about an
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American Hungarian photographer lives in
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New York and my next film is about a
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Russian literature professor who lives
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in Cuba and deals with the aftermath of
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the Chernobyl disaster so it’s ideas are
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brought to me ideas said um I come up
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with you know the Cuban film was it’s an
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original idea of my brother who’s also a
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filmmaker and he brought it to me and I
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was very excited to collaborate with him
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for the film and he will be the first
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time that I true in Cuba and his
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achievements of the matter again it’s
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something that comes organic and it
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happens when it happens well in my case
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I think song for Cuba was a film that I
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02 to myself in first place and I die Oh
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to Cuba and that I wanted to use to
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express and put out in order to keep
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went with my career and with whatever
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focus i’ll put in my art is from now on
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that i live in canada before the war in
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the other hand it’s a film that
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apparently has nothing to do with Cuba
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and I think the reason the reason is
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because the stories they morph and feel
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me something that you do with a group of
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people and everybody in this group will
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will bring something from their own
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background and before the war was in
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fact imagine for the first time when I
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arrived to Newfoundland and realized
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that the it was a beautiful place that I
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couldn’t enjoy because it was to call
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and indeed remind me of some people that
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are so beautiful but at the same time
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it’s so hard to love so that’s it that’s
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how the place inspired their own story
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and it could be a story that it could be
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placed any words the worst nameless but
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the fact that I I did it in Cuba and I
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did it with people from different
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backgrounds I think that that
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I said look like an ngon Cuba you know
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kind of work when it is and I’m punto de
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batalla que hace own hacer
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cinematographic a muchas veces y como
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como polymer a micasa pomona who may del
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sentimiento know the sentimental in
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Kentucky that reduces I how and why we
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sweated for my creative point of view
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there is always that sense of emotions I
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collide and he ain’t Acacio you and your
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google co ma sista castle I in this case
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I had just arrived from Cuba three
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months prior ela sentimiento que uno
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tiene some typical dejalo algo he the
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villains that I had with the usual
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feelings of having left something behind
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he killed guna manera inconsciente men
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take on sentiment a loja propia e
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intenta crear a visual mental enema in a
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home o night Orion and somehow things
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are we consciously or unconsciously
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appropriate and kind of come to
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integrate who we are and we try to use
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up in a way that create a story it’s a
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family curse on this my case Ian tone
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set for the said care que alguna manera
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and muchas veces en la pelicula avacyn
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no lo llaman entender que es por que
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sentí por cual sentimientos elemento de
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matica con sexually about how honda know
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and this is why somehow in the film I
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wasn’t quite sure about the conceptual
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themes that I was dealing with petting a
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Turkish oh yeah but you made acquainted
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era el hecho de hacer una pelicula and
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implies a concealed in this case I
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realized that it was about making a film
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in a country that was my own Empire to
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the mentor conoci a completely unknown
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landscape own language a connoisseur of
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an unknown language e ESO lo que una
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provoca uno my own particular mental ofl
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okay he’s okay my que provoca
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that’s it it’s a mi tampoco melancholic
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ax this is what triggers that I wanted
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to use these melancholic images and yoga
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has a hella check in the the decollete I
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waneta by a transition this is it is a
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factor we I am in a transitional state
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policy on immigration matters you know
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the loser una manera de sentimientos
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tanto de Lima and somehow feelings get
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translated into images Jebel Kahuna her
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CC oh interesante TCO and whoever this
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is a muy interesante but i also know
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yoga phone i’ll make very interesting
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exercise for a filmmaker alleged the boy
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comes to Edo and imagenes en sonido al
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una pelicula uncle to meet ahi fuera su
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país to be able to construct a film
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images and sound outside the round
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country yoga guru net / NC a–
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importante en tu que sera para para
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cualquier senior tech LOL intent i think
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it’s an important an enriching
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experience for any filmmaker and i
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recommend that anyone who can price it
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buenoooo no entiendo de juego que que
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que se lo lo lo mande pero SI alguna
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manera de una carga mucho mas fuerte no
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mi casa personal and myself especially
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coming from Cuban it’s not it’s beyond
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this Wooper in my case I did feel that I
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had an emotional connotation SI alguna
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manera lo que otra luz en la hema
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anything is so nearly demi khatta meetha
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this is why this is what i translated
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into the images on the sound of my short
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film single be a Kahuna pediment the
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same Demi we now are forgetting that it
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is an experimentation thank you
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