Film & Video
Havana Film Festival Shorts: Uprooted and El Play
Presented in collaboration with HFFNY. Uprooted takes an intimate look at the aspirations of an Afro-Colombian woman, one of the more than one million people displaced by Colombia’s violence since 1990. Living in a shoddy refugee shelter, Noris Mosquera scrimps and saves to send her son to a top-flight soccer academy. Yet despite her hard work, the family’s future remains uncertain. [Dir. Juan Mejía Botero, Colombia/USA, 2009, 44min, Documentary, Spanish with English Subtitles]
El Play, follows the hard-knock journey of a Dominican teen hoping to make it into baseball’s major leagues. Set in San Pedro de Macorís, the Dominican city famous for producing beisbol superstars, the documentary offers a rare look into players’ struggle to escape poverty—seen through the lens of family members, coaches, sometimes-shady scouts, and San Pedro-born Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano.
Directed by Pablo Medina, Dominican Republic, 2009, 30 min, Documentary, Spanish with English subtitles.
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