Havana Curveball

Jan 25 - Jan 26, 2015

60 min

Seattle premiere, with filmmaker in attendance! Co-presented with the Seattle Latino Film Festival

This film is a documentary about Mica, a young teen. He’s enthusiastic. Idealistic. Dreaming baseball. At 13, he is studying for his Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age rite. Imagining himself a savior of sorts, he launches a grand plan to send baseballs to Cuba, a country with a mysterious pull. He knows only that Cubans are poor and love baseball, and that Cuba was the place where his grandpa received refuge during the Holocaust. On a hunch, his award-winning filmmaker parents pick up their camera. They know the U.S. embargo with Cuba will throw him a curveball.

Screens with: Falling Planes (Mario Piredda, Cuba, 2012, live action, 12 min)

Notes to parents: This is a film about what happens when a teenager discovers how difficult it can be to do a simple good deed. As might be expected, a few coarse words are uttered during the film. Falling Planes, screening before the film, also has a swear word.

 

Havana Curveball - Trailer from PatchWorks Films on Vimeo.

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