Cuba and USA / 2000 / 57mins / Documentary /  English and Spanish

Highlights the experience of a black Cuban American famiy, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe.

Pam Sporn

Pam Sporn is a filmmaker, educator and activist. Her documentaries have won several film festival awards. A pioneer in bringing social issue documentary making into NYC high schools in the 1980s and 1990s, Pam contributed to the growth of the youth media movement. Her work interweaves historical narratives and personal storytelling and has covered such topics as Cuban cigar rollers, an annual dance, and the story of a family that emigrated from Cuba to the United States, as well as “homelessness, teen pregnancy and police brutality. Her project Detroit 48202: Conversations Along A Postal Route, is a look at history and change in Detroit through the eyes of a postal carrier. She has won BRIO awards in 1997, 2007 and 2010. She also won the 2008 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival’s Jury Award for Best Documentary Short for her film, Con El Toque de la Chavetta. Pam has also received awards and funding from Latino Public Broadcasting, New York State Council on the Arts, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. She has an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, and has taught at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Learn More