ReelHeART International Film Festival

June 16-21, 2008, Toronto Canada

Main Programming B, Tuesday 9:15 PM

    Tickets for this block - $8
    Senior & Students w ID - 3 $
    Organizations w ID - 5 $

    LOCATION
    Theater 222, 2nd Floor — Innis Town Hall, Innis College,
    2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus (1 block South of St. George Subway)

    Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story
    Director, Bill Kavanagh, USA

    A Civil Rights Story is a one-hour documentary following three families in a contemporary American battle for equal opportunity. One city’s struggle over racial discrimination and how to redress institutional housing segregation is the subject of a confrontation that challenges and changes Yonkers, New York. Drawn deeply into the conflict, the people in Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story show how contemporary America confronts the issues of race and opportunity today. Through their city’s crucible they deal with the meaning of civil rights in a contemporary context. This story describes the racial and class divisions still running through American hearts and minds, and the important role of political activism and leadership in bridging them.

     

    Cubanos, Life and Death of a Revolution
    Director, Yan Giroux, Quebec, CAN

     

     

     

     

    Cubanos, Life and Death of a Revolution
    Director, Yan Giroux, Quebec, CAN

     

     

     

    Cubanos, an independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban community. Sincere interviews and sequence shots reveal an identity fragmented by 48 years of dictatorship. The main character, Catuey, a Cuban musician, brings to his journey and his songs the image of an ideal Cuba hurt by the division in its people and the group-think that prevails in Miami.


    While Catuey and the interviewees try to define themselves both as individuals and as Cubans, the camera paints a broader, more complex portrait of a people held prisoner by their history. By exploring the richness of cinematographic language, Cubanos goes beyond the documentary genre to become a road movie that takes us to the heart of Catuey’s struggle.