Sons of Cuba
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Sons of Cuba is a 2009 documentary
feature film set in the Havana Boxing Academy, a school at the heart of Cuba's Olympic success in the ring. It follows the stories of three young hopefuls through eight months of training and schooling as the prepare for Cuba's National Boxing Championship for Under-12's. Sons of Cuba was directed by Andrew Lang
and is distributed by Cinetic Rights Management for the US and Canada and Ro*co Films for the rest of the world.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
feature film set in the Havana Boxing Academy, a school at the heart of Cuba's Olympic success in the ring. It follows the stories of three young hopefuls through eight months of training and schooling as the prepare for Cuba's National Boxing Championship for Under-12's. Sons of Cuba was directed by Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.- Biography :Lang was born in Selkirk...
and is distributed by Cinetic Rights Management for the US and Canada and Ro*co Films for the rest of the world.
Awards and nominations
- Winner, Best Documentary at the 2009 Los Angeles Latino International Film FestivalLos Angeles Latino International Film FestivalThe Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival includes feature films, documentaries, and short films from the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora. The six-day festival was established in 1997...
- Winner, Best Documentary at the 2009 International Rome Film Festival
- Winner, Youth Jury Award at the 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest
- Winner, Best Film on Latin America by a non-Latin American at the 2009 Havana Film FestivalHavana Film FestivalThe Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Spanish-language filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, and in English as Festival of New Latinamerican Cinema of La Havana.The festival takes place...
- Winner, Best Documentary by the 2009 Foundation of New Latin American Cinema
- Nominated, Best Documentary at the 2009 British Independent Film AwardsBritish Independent Film AwardsThe Moët British Independent Film Awards is an annual award ceremony celebrating achievement in independently funded British film and cinema. Nominations and jury are announced at the beginning of November with the award ceremony taking place in late November or early December.-History:The British...
- Opening Night Film at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalFull Frame Documentary Film FestivalThe Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight...
External links
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
- International Rome Film Festival
- Sheffield Doc/Fest
- British Independent Film Awards
- Palm Springs International Film Festival
- Sons of Cuba review in Variety Magazine
- Sons of Cuba review in Hollywood Reporter
- Fandango, Italian distributor
- Andrew Lang interview with The Huffington PostThe Huffington PostThe Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...