Jon Alpert Captures How Cuba Has Transformed Over 45 Years

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 17, 2017

Multiple-Emmy award-winning and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Jon Alpert began filming in Cuba in 1972 with a small crew and a portable camera. Over the next 45 years, he compiled more than 1,000 hours of footage while following three families and Fidel Castro. Alpert documented his subjects as they witnessed some of the country's most historic moments from the 1980 Mariel Bay boatlift to the “Special Period” in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union.

"Cuba and the Cameraman" opens at the IFC Center (323 6th Ave.) on Nov. 24. It will also be available on Netflix on the same day.

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