Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Hard Rock Havana" Tweetable Logline: Meet communist Cuba's loudest citizens—the most popular rock stars you've never heard of. Elevator Pitch: Deep inside communist Cuba—a place conjuring images of tropicana dancers, strong rum and the Castro brothers—heavy metal has exploded. The loud abrasive music, once forbidden as "music of the enemy," is now an official part of revolutionary society. An actual Agency of Rock was created by the Castros to control it. In this film, I follow the lives of Cuba's most popular metal band as they struggle to play their music within a system that wants to crush them. It's an inspiring story about some...
- 12/9/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Hard Rock Havana Tff 2010 might be starting today, but we jumped the gun a bit last night and threw a special party at the Bowery Hotel for our homegrown NY filmmakers, sponsored by our friends at Company 3. Filmmakers in attendance hailed from Queens to Brooklyn, the Bronx to Manhattan. (Staten Island, were you represented?) What did they all have in common, in addition to being from the greatest city in the world? They were ecstatic that the Festival is finally here, and they cannot Wait to show their films to the best audience in the world: Tribeca's. American Mystic Tribeca filmmakers in attendance included Keith Bearden (Meet Monica Velour), Ahmed Ahmed (Just Like Us), Alex Mar (American Mystic), Nicholas Brennan (Hard Rock Havana), and Francisco Bello (The Spirit of Salsa), to name just a few. Bello described his hopes for his big screening at the Tribeca Drive-In on Thursday...
- 4/21/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
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