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Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution, PBS- American Public Television
47th Annual Lower Great Lakes Chapter Emmy® Awards Winner Documentary 2016
CUBA: THE FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Juan Antonio Echeverría — a school teacher and architecture student, respectively - whose names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Through archival stock footage and exclusive interviews with Cuban revolution participants and observers, family members of the men, Americans who fought alongside Castro and Guevara, and a former CIA agent, we learn how these young men, who worked largely independently from each other, played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldíva. Scholar Lillian Guerra, of Yale and Florida State University, explains: "It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington's story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others." New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view — in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che Guevara — that Castro's army of 200 guerillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista's professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In actuality, País and Echeverría's city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for resistance and undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police. Both Pais and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see the movement succeed. A close associate reportedly gunned down Pais in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. The film highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping (and reshaping) of the final historical record. After Castro assumed power in 1959, he harnessed the power of the emerging medium of television to advance a narrative that effectively expunged País and Echeverría — and others responsible for the outcome — from Cuban history.
47th Annual Lower Great Lakes Chapter Emmy® Awards Winner Documentary 2016
CUBA: THE FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Juan Antonio Echeverría — a school teacher and architecture student, respectively - whose names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Through archival stock footage and exclusive interviews with Cuban revolution participants and observers, family members of the men, Americans who fought alongside Castro and Guevara, and a former CIA agent, we learn how these young men, who worked largely independently from each other, played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldíva. Scholar Lillian Guerra, of Yale and Florida State University, explains: "It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington's story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others." New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view — in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che Guevara — that Castro's army of 200 guerillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista's professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In actuality, País and Echeverría's city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for resistance and undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police. Both Pais and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see the movement succeed. A close associate reportedly gunned down Pais in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. The film highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping (and reshaping) of the final historical record. After Castro assumed power in 1959, he harnessed the power of the emerging medium of television to advance a narrative that effectively expunged País and Echeverría — and others responsible for the outcome — from Cuban history.
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The Credit DVD English and Spanish version.
The Credit DVD: is a comprehensive 55- minute DVD presents the complex subject of credit scores and credit reports to consumers and financial professionals in a clear, simple and easily understood manner.
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Victims of Another War
for Academy consideration 2005 Short Feature Documentary
VICTIMS OF ANOTHER WAR: The Aftermath of Parental Alienation is a groundbreaking study into the psychology of adults whose childhood was stolen from them on the day they were abducted.
http://www.victimsofanotherwar.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCt1XWLNQuo
VICTIMS OF ANOTHER WAR: The Aftermath of Parental Alienation is a groundbreaking study into the psychology of adults whose childhood was stolen from them on the day they were abducted.
http://www.victimsofanotherwar.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCt1XWLNQuo
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