The documentary film Letters to Eloisa, about a revered, obscured Cuban writer and his fraught relationship with the Cuban government, tells the story of one man on an island. But director Adriana Bosch’s tale of José Lezama Lima, whose gorgeous, complex writing was hailed internationally even as the author, who allied and then broke with…
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Changing the World, One Film at a Time – the Good Fight at Good Pitch Miami
The stars/heros were a teenage refugee from Honduras, a Mayan activist from Guatemala, a park ranger from Bolivia, a mentor to struggling teenagers in Los Angeles. The power brokers were foundation leaders and media executives. The supplicants were storytellers, filmmakers and activists. At stake was a chance to change the world. They all came together…