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Cuban Dreams O
Feature Length Documentary
Produced and Directed by Gail Reaben
Synopsis
Cuban Dreams is a feature length documentary exploring the dreams of the Cuban people.
Since Fidel Castro has resigned, and brother Raul is now President, we begin to feel the winds of
change. Perhaps the people's dreams are changing as well.
Who are these Cuban people? As a young university student from Taiwan said recently in the NY
Times, "To see is to believe. Cuba is a mystery for us, so we were very curious as to what people look
like, how everything works there". For nearly 50 years, what most people know about Cuba is about
Castro, the Revolution and the power struggle between the United States and this tiny island. So little
is known about who the Cuban people really are and what they dream for themselves. Their lives are
dominated by restriction and economic hardship. Does living in this environment cause them to
restrict those dreams or does the soul always find a way to soar, no matter what kind of enclosure it
finds itself?
Cuban Dreams will explore their lives and their dreams through individual interviews done in their
homes -- all against a backdrop frozen in time from the 1950's.
Feature Length Documentary
Produced and Directed by Gail Reaben
Synopsis
Cuban Dreams is a feature length documentary exploring the dreams of the Cuban people.
Since Fidel Castro has resigned, and brother Raul is now President, we begin to feel the winds of
change. Perhaps the people's dreams are changing as well.
Who are these Cuban people? As a young university student from Taiwan said recently in the NY
Times, "To see is to believe. Cuba is a mystery for us, so we were very curious as to what people look
like, how everything works there". For nearly 50 years, what most people know about Cuba is about
Castro, the Revolution and the power struggle between the United States and this tiny island. So little
is known about who the Cuban people really are and what they dream for themselves. Their lives are
dominated by restriction and economic hardship. Does living in this environment cause them to
restrict those dreams or does the soul always find a way to soar, no matter what kind of enclosure it
finds itself?
Cuban Dreams will explore their lives and their dreams through individual interviews done in their
homes -- all against a backdrop frozen in time from the 1950's.
Biography/Filmography
Gail Reaben is the Producer/Director of Be Bop Babies,
winner of the Platinum Remi Award, Best Documentary
Short, Worldfest Film Festival, 2006. It screened
internationally in 2007, including the Short Film
Corner, Cannes Film Festival. Invitational screenings
include the Jecheon Music & Film Festival in Korea,
2007 and the the North by Northeast Music and Film
Festival in Toronto, 2008.
Be Bop Babies was selected, in 2007, for PBS’ The
Territory, a series of 13 short films chosen from
international submissions.
Reaben has a B.A. in Art from The University of St.
Thomas. In addition to being an award making
filmmaker, she is also an award winning painter as
well as a published writer of mystical phenomenon.
Gail Reaben is the Producer/Director of Be Bop Babies,
winner of the Platinum Remi Award, Best Documentary
Short, Worldfest Film Festival, 2006. It screened
internationally in 2007, including the Short Film
Corner, Cannes Film Festival. Invitational screenings
include the Jecheon Music & Film Festival in Korea,
2007 and the the North by Northeast Music and Film
Festival in Toronto, 2008.
Be Bop Babies was selected, in 2007, for PBS’ The
Territory, a series of 13 short films chosen from
international submissions.
Reaben has a B.A. in Art from The University of St.
Thomas. In addition to being an award making
filmmaker, she is also an award winning painter as
well as a published writer of mystical phenomenon.
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In Cuba, there are no clothes dryers
so all laundry is dried outside.
so all laundry is dried outside.
Old Havana architecture.
The Malecon, Habana's sea wall where young couples
spend their evenings looking out to sea, dreaming of their
future.
spend their evenings looking out to sea, dreaming of their
future.
In a local restaurant, a large
painting of revolutionary, Che
Guevara.
painting of revolutionary, Che
Guevara.
Copyright 2008
Gail Reaben
All rights reserved
Gail Reaben
All rights reserved
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Cuba's The OK Band. Photo taken in Old Havana
c
Sergio, our translator in Cuba and
Steve Faytis, Associate Producer.
Steve Faytis, Associate Producer.
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