For the third year in a row, a U.S. documentary program will tour Cuba. Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias 3, which takes place April 5-14 2014 will bring Simon Kilmurry, Executive Producer of PBS’s award-‐winning P.O.V.(Point of View) television series, to Cuba. He will do a presentation about several of the Latino films that have aired on P.O.V and screen the new POV film Getting Back to Abnormal. Alexandra Halkin, Director of the Americas Media Initiative (AMI), a non-‐profit that works with Cuban filmmakers, organized the tour. the Cuban organizational providing the logistical support is the Young Directors Film Festival (Muestra Joven),based in Havana. The tour will begin with a presentation by Mr. Kilmurry at the Young Directors Festival and then Ms. Halkin and Mr. Kilmurry will travel to the Isle of Youth and Pinar del Rio, where they will screen Getting Back to Abnormal and engage in Q&A sessions with Cubanaudiences.
Getting Back to Abnormal
Back in the spring of 2012 AMI launched its pioneering Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias U.S. Documentary tour with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and was the first time that the MoMA did an official program in Cuba. Since then, the Closing Distances tours have screened six U.S. documentaries and engaged with Cuban audiences in Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Holguin, Bayamo, Guantanamo, Baracoa, the Sierra Maestra Mountains and Havana. Interviews and portions of the presentations have been broadcast on Cuban National Television, reaching millions of Cubans throughout the island. AMI is the only U.S. organization that Cuba has allowed to screen U.S. documentaries in the Cuban provinces.
Produced by American Documentary, Inc. and beginning its 27th season on PBS in 2014, P.O.V is the longest-‐running independent documentary showcase on American television screening films from around the world. P.O.V has presented more than 365 films to date. P.O.V. films have won every major film and broadcasting award, including 32 Emmys, 15 Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-‐Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards®, the Prix Italia and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers Commitment to Diversity Award. P.O.V. has pioneered the art of outreach, using nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today's most pressing social issues.
Produced by American Documentary, Inc. and beginning its 27th season on PBS in 2014, P.O.V is the longest-‐running independent documentary showcase on American television screening films from around the world. P.O.V has presented more than 365 films to date. P.O.V. films have won every major film and broadcasting award, including 32 Emmys, 15 Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-‐Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards®, the Prix Italia and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers Commitment to Diversity Award. P.O.V. has pioneered the art of outreach, using nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today's most pressing social issues.
POV Documentary Series
Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias 3will screenGetting Back to Abnorma directed by Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Paul Stekler, and Peter Odabashian. New Orleans is the setting for the film, which serves up a provocative mix of race, corruption and politics to tell the story of the re-election campaign of Stacy Head, a white woman in a city council seat traditionally held by a black representative. Supported by her irrepressible African-American aide Barbara Lacen-‐ Keller, Head polarizes the city. Featuring a cast of characters as colorful as the city itself, the film presents a New Orleans that outsiders rarely see. the film was an Official Selection of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival and is a co-production of ITVS. It will broadcast on POV on July 14, 2014.
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