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Directed by Peter MelaragnoDANCING WITH CORTÉS
A road trip along La Ruta Cortés, from Hernán Cortés’s arrival in present-day Veracruz (April 1519) to his meeting Moctezuma on a causeway intoTenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, now MexicoCity; through deserts, mountains, volcanoes, and the indigenous locales of La Antigua, Playa Villa Rica, Xalapa, Tlaxcala, Cholula, Paso de Cortés, Amecameca, and Iztapalapan -- plus the ruins of Zempoala and Quiahuitzlan -- all intercut with two actors delivering excerpts from contemporary accounts by Hernán Cortés and one of his lieutenants, Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
Forty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April of 1961, five Cuban-American Veterans traveled from Miami to Havana for an international conference devoted to the invasion. For some it was the first time they had stepped foot on Cuban soil since their release from Castro’s prisons and return to Florida in 1963.
CONGA LESSONS AT THE BAY OF PIGS
In 2002, three Americans traveled to Cuba under the U.S. Government's People-to-People exemption of the Trading With the Enemy Act. The original purpose: to avoid the more than forty years of political drama inherent to American-Cuban relations and, instead, immerse themselves in the vibrant musical culture of Cuba.
